After many recommendations, i yesterday purchased "PHP Cookbook" for £28.50 from waterstones.
I just wanted to say, i cannot recommend this book highly enough, vast amounts of information, useful projects make this an awesome book
one small gripe tho.... alot of the tutorials require PEAR which, i for one, have not and will never use
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Beginner: "PHP Visual": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
Advanced: "Advanced PHP Programming": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
Both are very solid books, I have them both sitting by me while I program. I still look things up in both.
Neither substantially relies upon PEAR, although both mention it, and use it in some examples.
As a side note, my big problem with PEAR is licensing. All my code is under the GPL, and numerous classes in PEAR aren't compatible with it. Why - two years after they added the ability for authors to pick another license - do they STILL not have a way to easily search for "packages licensed under X license"?
Just such a shame.
Advanced: "Advanced PHP Programming": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
Both are very solid books, I have them both sitting by me while I program. I still look things up in both.
Neither substantially relies upon PEAR, although both mention it, and use it in some examples.
As a side note, my big problem with PEAR is licensing. All my code is under the GPL, and numerous classes in PEAR aren't compatible with it. Why - two years after they added the ability for authors to pick another license - do they STILL not have a way to easily search for "packages licensed under X license"?
Just such a shame.