From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 02:57:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6903537B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from munk.nu (213-152-51-194.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6480143F3F for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.20) id 19cj1y-000Odq-Qg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:57:02 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:57:02 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030716095702.GC88187@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030715202019.M83992@enabled.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030715202019.M83992@enabled.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: User Munk Subject: Re: learning PHP - book idea? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:57:05 -0000 On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:21:43PM -0800, admin wrote: > > I have years of perl experience and PHP has been easy to pick up. however, I > am looking for a good book that can bring me way up to speed in choping htis > stuff up better. any recommendations there? If you can get hold of the first edition (it's currently second edition) of this: Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (1st Edition), Matt Zandstra, SAMS that's a really good book just for the last 2 hours which goes into detail about creating a web portal for multi-users to register/login/logout/goto members page etc using PHP, MySQL and php sessions. I adapted the code in that book here: http://simpleauth.munk.nu/ for a very basic tutorial codebase (basically more comments than code:). If you already have the basics down, a good intermediate level book is: PHP Developer's Cookbook, Sterling Hughes, SAMS (I don't have any affiliation with SAMS, this is just a coincidence!!!) This book has lots of instant recipes for getting specific things done, as well as covering the use of the PEAR PHP class-based application framework. -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/