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About php books

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Hey guys , I'm sorry if this is the wrong section :(

I'm a cs student and I'm learning c++ , I already learnt , condition statements / loops / pointers / functions / structures / basic classes along with other things. " still learning "

I want to take your advice about Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript , should I learn it while learning c++ ? or should I start in the summer ?

also what's the best book to learn from ? and it must be up to date.

Thanks guys in advance ^^
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Up to date PHP book? PHP: the Right Way just released a dead tree version. Their site is also excellent.
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oh thanks , isn't a little short ? or it isn't as big as c++ ? cuz in c++ the book is about 1300 pages :D
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PHP has been evolving quite rapidly, making most print books dated -- if not outright obsolete -- by the time they're published. Combine that with the utterly absurd number of PHP 'tutorials' rife with horrible practices and a complete disregard for security and you're left with precious little. The site I linked is an attempt to remedy that, and is one of the only sites I'll recommend to anyone looking to learn PHP properly. Additionally, I think you'll find that most programming books -- PHP or otherwise -- are geared toward the absolute beginner. You only need to learn conditionals, loops, etc once, yet that's the meat of most of what I've seen out there. Hope the site helps some.
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I really like books since they start from the scratch and explain everything " at least some of the books do " , but should I start learning it while learning c++ ? or should I just leave it until summer since I won't be that busy ?

is it an easy language ? at least compared to learning c++ " I know they're different language " but i'm asking about learning it.

Thanks for posting the link of this website , it looks good , but isn't a little short ? I don't know but it feels like it's not that heavy ?
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Hey guys , sorry for posting a lot :D

I searched and found this book

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-Ja ... 544&sr=1-1

Is it ok ? if it is , then i'll get it and start reading it along with the website.

Thanks a lot.
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There's not much of the content available in the preview pages, but the index shows references to mysql_query and none to either MySQLi or PDO. On that fact alone I would give this book a pass. Last thing you want to do is start off learning bad practices.
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