PHP Books

[Adam]

Can anyone recommend any good PHP coding books - ie. bibles with all the
codes in an easy format etc...

thanks,
Adam.

[John Downey]

I like PHP Black Book its a good reference book from where I stand.

-John

[Terence]

Adam wrote:

I started from scratch with this one
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130893986/qid=1035860781/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9611496-9896938?v=glance

It was very easy to read because assumed nothing and the author had a
good writing style. I highly recomend it for newbies.

For the more advanced (intermediate), I am reading this one at the
moment. It's worth it's weight in gold! I can't recomend it enough.
Indespensable!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672323826/qid%3D1035860951/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-9611496-9896938
This book covers so many advanced database topics that it doesn't have
enough space to go into real depth - but that is what the technical
manual is for. What it will do, is make sure you are aware of *all* the
really really useful facilities at your disposal when designing
"propper" database applications in PHP.

I've also read
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735709971/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/102-9611496-9896938?v=glance
it has a lot of essential technical knowledge if you want to be
professional - ie. best practices etc. It also touches on some advanced
aspects.

I've had a look at a few other books as well and I don't think they're
worth a mention.

[J Beckett]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:02:35 GMT, "Adam" <adams...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I went and bought the O'Reilly book on PHP and the book they also do
on "Building Websites with MySQL and PHP".

They have stood me in pretty good stead so far, but now I'm becoming
proficient with it, I'm starting to hit things the books don't cover.

That's where the newsgroups and php.net come in though :)

Jonathan
Jonathan Beckett // kaf...@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.kafooey.com/blog