Free online PHP-book: "Practical PHP Programming"!
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:10 am
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Maybe if you ask him nicely he can provide the information in more formats?hudzilla.org wrote:Please do not use site downloaders to copy the book locally; it would hammer my web server, and is very selfish.
No. Read the copyright notice on that. Paul has put a lot of work into writing this book (and what I've looked at is very well explained, well written, clearly structured), it's very generous of him to offer this online for free(!). Consequently it's more than fair if he says:malcolmboston wrote:honestly, when i visited the site i couldnt believe they didnt do this.
yes please!
(and yes, the site owner should of already thought of this)
Paul Hudson wrote:You may: print the content out, save it to a local drive for offline reading, or link to any chapter of this book from your own site. I'd rather you didn't use a site download tool such as wget, partially because I hope to be able to update the content here as errors are spotted or I come up with new ideas, and also because it's a huge waste of my bandwidth.
You may not: distribute copies of the content (an exception to this is the source code) either on your own web site or on other media (digital or otherwise), sell access to the content, or otherwise copy the media.
Well, he could'nt exactly charge for it as the php manual is free and better and alot of the content is just copied and slightly altered from the originalpatrikG wrote: No. Read the copyright notice on that. Paul has put a lot of work into writing this book (and what I've looked at is very well explained, well written, clearly structured), it's very generous of him to offer this online for free(!). Consequently it's more than fair if he says:
Really? Wasn't aware of that. Could you give an example?malcolmboston wrote:Well, he could'nt exactly charge for it as the php manual is free and better and alot of the content is just copied and slightly altered from the originalpatrikG wrote: No. Read the copyright notice on that. Paul has put a lot of work into writing this book (and what I've looked at is very well explained, well written, clearly structured), it's very generous of him to offer this online for free(!). Consequently it's more than fair if he says:
non-php manual wrote: The original release of PHP was designed and created by Rasmus Lerdorf back in the middle of the 90s as a way of making various common web tasks easier and less repetitive. Back then, the main goal was to have the minimum amount of logic as was possible in order to achieve results, and this led to PHP being HTML-centric - that is, PHP code was embedded inside HTML.
The first popular version of PHP was called PHP/FI 2.0, for Personal Home Page / Form Interpreter, and, despite its parsing inconsistencies, managed to attract a fair few converts, including myself. The main issue with this version was that the PHP/FI parser was largely hand-written, and so users often encountered scripting errors that were not technically errors - they were just the PHP/FI parser screwing up. Furthermore, the parser was absolutely tied to the Apache web server, and was hardly renowned for its speed.
its not word for word, but as you read through the manual you start spotting alot of similarities (especially the install stats)php-manual wrote: PHP succeeds an older product, named PHP/FI. PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As more functionality was required, Rasmus wrote a much larger C implementation, which was able to communicate with databases, and enabled users to develop simple dynamic Web applications. Rasmus chose to release the source code for PHP/FI for everybody to see, so that anybody can use it, as well as fix bugs in it and improve the code.
Harry Fuecks's Blog at: http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=200734 wrote: "I asked Paul last month about adding a feedback mechanism, whether it was to make the entire thing some sort of wiki or just allow comments. I don't think he would mind if I shared part of his response:
> I see where you're coming from regarding > allowing comments beneath pages, but I > didn't want to introduce that sort of > thing just yet. > > The reason for this is because it's > essentially "first draft" right now: no > technical editor has been through it, and > neither has a production editor. As a > result, it's probably littered with many > hundreds of basic errors that I'd like to > get corrected before I open up general > comments."