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PHP Index - PHP Book :
Programming PHP
by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe Paperback: 500 pages Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565926102; 1st edition (March 2002) Programming PHP is a comprehensive guide to PHP, a simple yet powerful language for creating dynamic web content. The book is co-authored by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, so you'll learn not only how to program in PHP, but how to do it well. This authoritative book explains the language syntax and programming techniques of PHP 4, the latest version of the language, in a clear and concise manner. Programming PHP goes into detail on fundamental topics such as functions, strings, arrays, and objects, with numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and good PHP style. Programming PHP also presents application development techniques for building modern web sites. You'll learn how to process web forms, handle session data, interact with relational databases such as MySQL, and create dynamic images and PDF files. The book also covers advanced topics like security, manipulating XML data, and writing your own C-language extensions to PHP. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Eugene Mah from Charleston, SC USA This book is a good introduction to the language. Veterans may not get a lot out of it, but might still find the chapters on dealing with databases, images and PDF useful. Newbies, beginners and intermediate users will probably benefit most from this book. PHP is a fairly easy language to learn, and this is a very good book to learn it from. Reviewer: Mike Stevens from NYC, NY USA When I bought this book, I purchased it for 2 reason's: 1) Its an ORA book and they have in the past published high quality technical references. 2) It was "authored" by Rasmus Lerdorf, the father of PHP. I figured it must be a definitive guide. When I bought this book, I felt a bit swindled. First of all, it seems that Rasmus only served as an editor type, not really writing the book, just supervising. Most of the content was written by the other author(s). He gets top billing on amazon, no doubt, because O'Reilly is betting that name recognition is what is going to make you purchase this book. On top of that the book is really only mediocre. While some of the writing is lucid, at points the author does seem to depart into fairy land (not that there is anything wrong with fairy land, I just have better things to do with my time than take a visit). Furthermore, "Programming PHP" misses a lot of what php is about, and how you can harness PHP. The coverage of PHP's core components (numbers, arrays, strings, objects, oh my!) is pretty good, but once they get into the nitty gritty, they seem to ignore the gritty. Leaving you with a taste for the subject, but no real substance. Furthermore, they neglect many of the topics that make PHP what it is today, including, ldap interaction, compression, snmp interaction, mail handling, system integration, RPC, COM and Java integration and a sleuth of other features. In summary, if you want a nice pretty ORA reference, this is the book for you, if you want substance, I reccomend either "The PHP Developer's Cookbook" or one of Wrox's series (all are pretty good, choose according to your competency level). Reviewer: Omar from NJ United States This book is well written and an extremely easy read. The coverage is very very comprehensive yet concise! If you were worried about dragging through another 1400 page wrox book just to grasp another language, you will want to run and get this book. You will pick up PHP fast with no delay. It is around 380 pages along with a nice reference area of php functions. If you are a web developer who wants to pick up PHP quickly simply purchase this book. Folks with only html experience can also expect to have an excellent understanding of PHP by the end of the book, although I suggest that the book be read by someone with some form of previous web programming experience. This is only because certain coverage is very efficient and may be hard to keep up with if you are a complete novice in web programming basics. Did I forgot to mention that the co-author is the creator of PHP!! :) Reviewer: Steve Grohl from WA, USA This book is a half baked attempt at teaching PHP programming. It has a poor organization,missing php functions, and lack of in-depth examples with good explanations. If your are a newbie to the world of PHP programming and desperately need a reference to get you started, this may be the book for you. If you have the will to fight it out and can't find any other resources, then this is a must-have. Its frustrating enough when you know what your looking for and can't find it. I find myself using the online documentation far more than I use this book. Also it seems like Rasmus has not done any major writing on this book and has been misleading to me as a customer. |
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