Re: SV: [PHP] PHP Book?

On Friday 27 April 2001 22:53, eschmid+sic@s.netic.de wrote: > > > Try "Core PHP Programmning", it's have a lot of good stuff! > > > > That book is definitely the wrong choice for someone with 3 years > > perl experience (perhaps unless there's a second edition). The copy > > I unfortunately bought is built somehow like that: > > What books are you reading? None right now (manual and online articles only - and the mailing list of course), but I plan to look for a good advanced one soon. > > IO 340 pages function references (copied from the manual) [2] > > That is wrong. Leon havent copied 340 pages from the manual. I should > know this myself because I have finished the translation into German. Ok, I guess you're right. sorry. What I wanted to express is that the same information is in the online manual. > > [2]: completely uses - the online manual is much quicker to search > > and much more up to date (the book only covers PHP3) > > This is not true. Leon has written his second edition. This edition > contains PHP 4 also. Ah, ok (that's why I wrote "perhaps unless there's a second edition" at the beginning). I own the first edition and described that. > Please read books more carefully and don't pester this mailing list > with your nonsense comments. I mean that book with a foreword by Andi > Gutmans. Well, you just said "Core PHP Programming" and I described that book. But you're right in that I know nothing about the second edition. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) I sat laughing snidely into my notebook until they showed me a PC running Linux. And oh! It was as though the heavens opened and God handed down a client-side OS so beautiful, so graceful, and so elegant that a million Microsoft developers couldn't have invented it even if they had a hundred years and a thousand crates of Jolt cola. - LAN Times