Books on PHP and Mysql
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:52 am
Ive decided that enough is enough and I cant keep relying on this site to help me get through my project I need to develope some serious skills now could any of you suggest some decent books that I could use im told I should get 1 or two general web application books and a php reference manual aswell, what do you think about this?
Ive more or less got the mysql stuff sorted but I am not a hardcore programmer - I intend to develop in this scripting language though.
Ok a few questions how much does it matter what version of php I use is there that much of a difference between versions
alot of the time I have been referred to functions that are readily available or that people have created - what I dont understand is that if a certain function does something that you want to do then why dont people just create there applications based on a bunch of pre defined functions why do you have to always develop from scratch.
for example when I was trying to do pagination someone just told me to use a certain function in php which does it for you with no hassle - I hope you understand what I mean.
Anyway any general advice and guidance would be much appreciated.
Ive more or less got the mysql stuff sorted but I am not a hardcore programmer - I intend to develop in this scripting language though.
Ok a few questions how much does it matter what version of php I use is there that much of a difference between versions
alot of the time I have been referred to functions that are readily available or that people have created - what I dont understand is that if a certain function does something that you want to do then why dont people just create there applications based on a bunch of pre defined functions why do you have to always develop from scratch.
for example when I was trying to do pagination someone just told me to use a certain function in php which does it for you with no hassle - I hope you understand what I mean.
Anyway any general advice and guidance would be much appreciated.