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- zoiks
Any recomendations for a PHP beginner?
- UndoUndo0
"php in easy steps" costs about $10, starts from the beginning, really easy to understand and gets you going. worth every penny[cent]
- Dancer0
link?
- Dancer0
Undo,
I do not want to learn PHP 5 but
how true is this?:"i understand that it was written before the newer versions of PHP were available; which is why i write this... this book should not be in print. period. the examples are completely incorrect. if you follow any of them you will not write working programs at all. it took me a series of conversations with friends to understand that this book is simply CRAP. do not buy it. do not read it. leave it alone. this book has to fade away. "
- dc_again0
there can be only one:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/p…
however, just discovered - and bought - a great book from the dummies series that covers pretty much everything - installing and configuring apache, PHP, MySQL and using it with PHP, regular expressions and using them in PHP, and everything else you can think of. almost.
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/…
superb and very, very cheap when you consider it's 7 books in one.
- UndoUndo0
i dont agree with that. I used the php 4 version and although i found a couple of typos which were misleading generally the book was worth every penny. It is very simple and doesnt go into details so for somethings you will have to use php.net.
looking at the other comments you can see most peeps benefitted from it. I have seen the php5 book and although it is titled php5 it is so simple most of the stuff is covered in php4.
I agree with you dont learn php5 to start with, maybe look for a second hand php4 version. there are many hosts providing php5 yet.
Another thing to remember it doesnt cover all host variations ie php on windows server etc in the examples but for most of the examples it makes no difference.
a good book in my opinion. it will get you started and then you can use php.net for the rest.
hope that helps
- sherman0
This is the one I use and its great.
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos…
- monkeyshine0
I've been happy with Sitepoint books: http://www.sitepoint.com/
- ********0
I disagree. If you are new to PHP I would start with php5. Simply put - php4 is not future proof and by the time you've learnt anything usable version 5 will be the norm. Don't shoot yourself in the foot...
- UndoUndo0
moth I understand what yr saying but if you learn 5 now on a server with 4 aren't you gonna run into errors that will confuse you?
you can always pick up 5 when it becomes wide spread
- ********0
moth I understand what yr saying but if you learn 5 now on a server with 4 aren't you gonna run into errors that will confuse you?
UndoUndo
(Jun 13 05, 09:03)Not as far as I know. The biggest changes are security - and even using php4 you're encouraged to change things like declaring all your variables and such...
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/migr…
I don't a newb is going to be coding anything too complex in the first 12 months anyway... imo.
- ********0
Globals, for example...
http://uk.php.net/register_globa…
- UndoUndo0
if that's true and all php5 can run on 4 then I agree with Moth