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Favourite PHP Book
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:37 pm
by puregraphite
What would you say is the one PHP book you couldn't live without? Nerdy huh! lol

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:38 pm
by feyd
Anything O'Reilly

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:41 pm
by puregraphite
I got a few of them. They are good. I like the Visual Quickpro guides
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:17 pm
by m3mn0n
Any of my O'Reilly, Visual Quick Start, and Wrox collection of books.
More specificly
this one.

anything on sale
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:35 am
by phpScott
I like the WROX series and the O'Reily quick refrence guides, but I couldn't live without my JavaScript Bible.
Also anything in the bargin bin, it is usually out of date but provides a good starting point cheaply.

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:37 am
by patrikG
Personally I find the PHP Anthology very handy, but if ever I want to think big, I'll stick my nose into Schlossnagl's "Advanced PHP Programming". Very cool stuff, but I am not getting to do much coding these days...
As for the one and only PHP book I couldn't live without - it hasn't been printed, yet. It's only online at
http://www.php.net/manual...

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:42 am
by puregraphite
I got some books downloaded from the net in PDF format.
[edited by patrikG - don't want to come across as tough cop, but copying copyrighted material is illegal.]
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:01 am
by puregraphite
But its not breaking the law is it? Because most of these books are downloadeable and they have restrictions such as, print disable, copy disable, but they are ok to be shared. would that still be illegal to share with someone? these are just reference but obviously I'd guess you know better
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:06 am
by patrikG
As long as you're sharing freely distributable content there are no worries.
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:19 am
by puregraphite
Cool....those are the only ones I got anyway, so it is OK to share the distributable items?
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:27 am
by patrikG
As I said - as long as they explicitely state they are freely distributable, there are no worries.
My initial concerns was that you wanted to distribute copyrighted material, which could have had repercussions for this forum. Not because or by me, but the guys whose content was being distributed. Glad that's not the case

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:36 am
by Breckenridge
No book is as good as
http://www.php.net trust me!
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:53 am
by puregraphite
totally agree, but its just times when you cant be asked to search and look for specific stuff...books are good.