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Advanced PHP Programming

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:25 pm
by markl999
I don't normally recommend PHP books as i'm more a 'learn by trying' sorta person, but if you've not yet read/ordered Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle then i highly recommend you do.

It covers many subjects that other PHP books shy away from and provides really world examples. As only 10% of the material is PHP5 specific it's also useful for PHP4 users. It's not really a 'this is how you do suchathing in PHP' but more a concepts and ideas book with solid example code to back them up.

Here's a chapter summary.
  1. Part 1: Code Management
  2. Chapter 1: Coding Styles
  3. Chapter 2: Advanced Features
  4. Chapter 3: Error Checking/Handling
  5. Chapter 4: Implementing with PHP: Templates and the Web
  6. Chapter 5: Implementing with PHP: Standalone Scripts
  7. Chapter 6: Unit testing
  8. Part 2: Application Performance By Design
  9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Development Environment
  10. Chapter 8: Designing a Good API
  11. Chapter 9: External Performance Tunings
  12. Chapter 10: Data component caching
  13. Chapter 11: Computational Reuse
  14. Chapter 12: Interacting with Databases
  15. Part 3: Building Distributed Applications
  16. Chapter 13: User Authentication and Session Security
  17. Chapter 14: Session Handling
  18. Chapter 15: Building a distributed environment
  19. Chapter 16: RPC – Interacting with remote services
  20. Part 4: Performance
  21. Chapter 17: Application Benchmarks: Testing an entire application
  22. Chapter 18: Profiling
  23. Chapter 19: Synthetic Benchmarks: Evaluating code blocks and functions
  24. Chapter 20: PHP and Zend Engine Internals
  25. Chapter 21: Extending PHP Part 1
  26. Chapter 22: Extending PHP Part 2
  27. Chapter 23: Writing SAPIs and Extending the Zend Engine

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:58 am
by JayBird
Thanks for the heads-up.

Mark

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:56 am
by m3mn0n
It's only $55 CDN; good deal indeed.

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:05 am
by JayBird

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:21 pm
by phice
I've been looking for a good Advanced PHP book.

Thanks :)