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PHP Index - PHP Book :
PHP Black Book
by Peter Moulding Paperback: 880 pages Dimensions (in inches): 2.11 x 9.23 x 7.38 Publisher: The Coriolis Group ISBN: 1588800539; 1st edition (October 11, 2001) The PHP Black Book is a complete and indispensable reference to the PHP open source scripting language version 4. Embedded in HTML documents, PHP scripts create active server pages. This cross-platform book covers the language syntax, standard library, and integration with various databases including open source databases such as PostreSQL and MySQL. Explores issues such as internationalization, XML integration, and LDAP. Book Info: A complete and indispensable reference to the PHP open source scripting language version 4. Explores issues such as internationalization, XML integration, and LDAP. Softcover. CD-ROM included. About the Author: Peter Moulding (Sydney, Australia) has 25 years of experience building what are now called Web sites on mainframes, minis, and micro systems as a business owner, technical manager, and developer. He has been using PHP since version 2. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Arman Galstyan from New York, NY USA I have studied php black book after i covered several other php books, extensive articles, tutorials etc. best of all? no doubt php black book is the best among what i saw about php. it goes into every details your emagination can think of while always concluding everything in immediate solution sections found in every chapter, gives extended examples and addresses real world issues. In addition, i had a problem with one of my php aplications and after posting the issue at several of the best known php forums decided to write to Peter; the author of php black book though it was not really his issue. the answer arrived within hours. Peter complitly anwered to all of my question writing more than 10 emails back to me, described the issues i was encounting, came up with solutions and much more. i strongly suggest php black book as your study source in php universe. Reviewer: A reader from Saint Dizier, Champagne, France PHP Black book is an excellent book to learn PHP with. I would however reccomend anyone thinking of buying this book to have some prior scripting language experience (JavaScript would be ideal). Almost everything you want to know is covered in this book, and anything that is not covered you can find in the PHP manual at php.net or in another book (i would probably say that after reading this book you should also read a book specially for proffesional PHP programmers or web application development with PHP). This book solved all of my PHP problems and the software bundled with it is great. Also the best part about the book in my opinion is that you do not have to read the book from cover to cover to start programming PHP applications. All you have to do is simply read 4 chapters and you have the basic PHP knowledge, the other 16 chapters can be read in any order you like. This is a great book for PHP beginners and proffesionals alike. Reviewer: Herbert V. Leighton from Philadelphia Had I not learned the basics of PHP elsewhere, I would not have learned them from this book. It is poorly layed out. Instead of systematic description of the language and its design issues, you get someone skittering around, mixing important details with unimportant fluff. I recommend Welling and Thomson's PHP and MySQL over this title just in the PHP department. To add insult to injury, the author is quite egotistical and thinks you will be amused by his practice of using himself in his sample code. Puleaze! Reviewer: Jonathan Dillon-Hayes from Larkspur, CA I got this book as a christmas present from my mother (how's that for geekiness -- it's all I wanted for christmas!). I've used it extensively to help me write a content mgmt system, helpdesk, and filemaker/php xml integration. It's been a real gem. Now, it's not for those who need to learn, and some of the bad reviews for the book reflect this. And I think he moves along a little fast sometimes, as many authors tend to. But this book is basically organized into 1) intelligent discussion 2) class diagrams and useful information on what's built into php and 3) excellent howto examples with code. It's a great hands-on guide for building, and I reccomend it for those looking for a great desktop reference. To the author: good job Status: We definitely reccomend this book to intermediate php coding clients in our hosting company. |
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