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malcolmboston
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PHP cookbook

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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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Post by phpScott »

I've been looking for a new 'good' php book as well and most of them use pear which like malcomBoston I'm not a big fan of, no other reason then it seems overkill for most projects that I do.

Any recomondations for books that don't require pear as a prerequisite :?:
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Post by Roja »

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.
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