Re: Recommended book for PHP?
by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>
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Thanks.
On 18 Dec 2002, at 10:24, Kathy Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:17, David Jones wrote: >
> On 17 Dec 2002, at 22:26, jalal wrote: > > can recommend
> is Professional PHP Programming from Wrox.
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> This one is very good, but the index is wanting (try
> looking up "date" or "getdate" ... it's faster to go to
> www.php.net). I found "Core PHP programming" by Leon
> Atkinson to fill in the gaps nicely. There has also been a
> new PHP4 book released recently(ish) - was reviewed on /.
> (www.slashdot.org) yesterday (Wrox Press's Professional
> PHP4). Might be worth looking at. While the books always
> useful, for convenience and speed you just can't beat the
> function search and associated comments on www.php.net so
> as soon as you can get access to the net check it out.
> I've found solutions (or explainations) for so many
> problems in the contributed comments (not to mention some
> very helpful code snippets). That's the sort of stuff you
> won't get in the books.
True. I saw the review of Professional PHP4 on
Slashdot, the reviewer says it's been out for over a year.
> > > Open Source content management system)? I'd like to >
> > > be using it on my church's new web site, so others
> > > can > update content without having to drag me into
> > > the > process anymore!
>
> Or if your Church's requirements are relatively simple you
> could look at writing something yourself. PHP is *really*
> nice for that sort of stuff.
Our hosting service already has PHP installed, I just
need to learn how to get it working and set the site up
for it. The site's kind of simple now, but we have great
plans for it.
David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
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