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Hey people,
I just wanted to get your opinion about these books.
I am not a novice even not an intermediate PHP programmer but I just want to have a book about really advanced tpis, tricks etc. of PHP.
After some searching, I came up with these books:
  • 1. Advanced PHP Programming - George Schlossnagle
    2. PHP 5 Power Programming (Bruce Perens Open Source) - Andi Gutmans
    3. PHP Unleashed - John Coggeshall
    4. PHP Anthology vol.1 and vol.2 - Harry Fuecks
What do you think and which one would you prefer?
Again, it should really include advanced programming (for example more OOP, design techniques, XML, Web Services, DesignTEchniques etc..)

Thanks for your opinions..
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Post by The Monkey »

Advanced PHP Programming is very good, but it is more of a general introduction to many advanced ideas. That said, I learned a whole lot from it and highly recommend it, although not necessarily over any of the other books you listed - I have not heard of them before.
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler is a meaty book about OOP design. You can see the pattern catalogue here.

It'll be heavy going if you are fairly new to OOP but it's one you absolutely have to read when you're ready for it.
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Post by mudkicker »

Thanks McGruff, I'm not new to OOP but not a very good OOP programmer, too. I already wrote some scripts with OOP and know how it works.

Any more opinions?
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Post by nigma »

here's a review with user contributed comments on php 5 power programming: http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/03/1 ... =169&tid=6
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