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[nycphp-talk] recommended introductory PHP text

harvey list at harveyk.com
Thu Sep 9 11:35:20 EDT 2004


I just used PHP Cookbook to help me with some code, and I found it very 
well written with good code snippets and comments. Congrats, David...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/



At 11:15 AM 9/9/2004, David Sklar wrote:
>David Mintz wrote:
>
>>>Suppose you were teaching a PHP course (10 sessions x 3 hrs)  to people
>>>who knew only HTML. What book(s) would you recommend?
>>>Programming PHP (Lerdorf & Tatroe) is already on the list. Something that
>>>introduces the reader to some of the universals of progamming languages --
>>>variables, conditionals, loops -- would be helpful.
>
>Mitch Pirtle wrote:
>
>>Just recieved a review copy of "Learning PHP 5" by David Sklar, and it
>>also looks like a good starting point that also IMHO most importantly
>>covers PHP 5 from the start.  Looking forward to getting that review
>>done, as the book appears promising ;-)
>
>Yeah, I was going to recommend that one, too. :) I specifically tried to 
>cover in the beginning of the book those universals David mentions. My 
>target reader is someone who is comfortable with HTML, has maybe seen a 
>little Javascript, but really has no procedural programming experience.
>
>David
>
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