Core PHP Programming

by Leon Atkinson

Intended for experienced developers, this guide explains PHP syntax, functions, sorting, searching, parsing, string evaluation, database integration, graphics generation, and web site design techniques. The CD-ROM contains a complete implementation of PHP 3, the book's code samples, and two web servers that support Apache for UNIX and Xitami for Windows NT. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Internet, Web

450 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 1999

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found the second edition to be useful as a quick reference. Now that I am nearing the completion of my first read of the third edition I anticipate one rereading at least. There are many topics and specifics here covered with which I had little or no prior familiarity and some features of PHP of which I had knowledge became newly exciting to me. For my purposes this is almost a different text than the second edition. In sum and in my own work it is proving to be a book of great worth.

[Ryan Boone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is it a reference book? Yes. Is it dry? Undoubtedly. But if you want to know all there is to know about PHP, this is the book.

I recently rediscovered it while running through a PHP class at Treehouse. The understanding of Object-Oriented Programming I gained alone was well worth the purchase price. Now I'm pouring over the design patterns examples.This is a great book to nerd out on.

[John Dalton]

This isn't a bad book, but I bought it specifically for its coverage of PHP5 and was very disappointed in that respect. It only provides a fairly cursory overview of the newer features, whereas I'd prefer to have seen a much more extensive exploration of fully OO PHP as enabled by PHP5.

[In-ho Yi · Rating 3 out of 5]

read it when I was an aspiring script kiddie in High School. First bit was alright. But then the second half was just a hard copy dump of library reference manual. Duh.