RE: [PHP] Books on PHP
| From: | Michael R @ Spy | Date: | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:46:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Books on PHP | ||
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For learning PHP, I liked "PHP Essentials" by Julie Meloni.
-Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lott [mailto:chrisl@thethirdsector.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:28 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Books on PHP
>
>
> > I am new to PHP and was wondering if anyone can point me the right
> > direction
> > with
> > PHP urls and books
>
> In the past few months I have received nearly all of the PHP
> books that have
> been written (I wanted to evaluate possible books for some classes) and I
> think all of the entry-level/beginner/learn the language kind of
> books. PHP
> and MySQL Web Development is a great book, and provides a good
> resource for
> both PHP and MySQL in one text. However, I think its sections on actually
> learning PHP are a bit on the short side, assuming more knowledge and
> self-motivation than a lot of people (ok, beginning students)
> might have. I
> highly recommend it, but I would add to it the PHP Bible (which
> you already
> have) and, if that isn't enough, the PHP books from Wrox. PHP4: A
> Beginner's
> Guide is actually pretty good and might have been (had I received it in
> time) the best choice for a class text, since it is structured and written
> that way.
>
> You really can't go wrong with any of those books, a good project to keep
> yourself interested, and a local copy of the documentation.
>
> c
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