Programming PHP, 2nd Edition, is the authoritative guide to PHP 5 and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) an...
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Jan 26, 2012
Prashanth
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This is probably a good way to illustrate how programming books ought not to be written. I have high respects for the authors - especially Rasmus, all of us should be indebted to PHP founder. But, the book runs just like program documentation. Nothing wrong with it for super-geeks who learn everything from the man pages, but for the rest of us mortals there should be some mind-exercises, a few good problems, a theme to apply what we learn and what not. The book nicely goes from the basics to the
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Jan 28, 2012
Chance
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This was good for beginner to intermediate PHP programming...back when I read it.
While I haven't actively worked with PHP since PHP 4 was still fairly new, I could already see that PHP was trending toward a more object-oriented style.
So it's interesting that the co-author of the book who happens to be the guy who fucking INVENTED PHP actually focuses the book around function-based programming.
As such, this is a good cover-to-cover read for beginners and a hand More...
While I haven't actively worked with PHP since PHP 4 was still fairly new, I could already see that PHP was trending toward a more object-oriented style.
So it's interesting that the co-author of the book who happens to be the guy who fucking INVENTED PHP actually focuses the book around function-based programming.
As such, this is a good cover-to-cover read for beginners and a hand More...
Jan 06, 2009
Hendry
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A mild introduction to PHP. Unlike other book, it gives quite a bit of examples of powerful PHP usage. This is more appropriate for programmers or developers who have some knowledge in other programming language.
Apr 18, 2008
Dan
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I have my 1st PHP project at work in many a year. I don't even really remember this language, even though I wrote a few web sites in it years back. It looks like Perl to me . . . I find the online API documentation to be about the best way to figure out how to use this, though.
Jan 28, 2012
Tom
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I had the good fortune to meet Rasmus when I worked for Yahoo! This is a great book on PHP, and he is one of the great engineers living today.
I recommend this to anyone looking to learn PHP.
I recommend this to anyone looking to learn PHP.
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