php book recommendations
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:11 am
Hello all,
I guess I'd consider myself to be an intermediate PHP developer now (been doing Web development for about 5+ years, 2 of those PHP) and would like to learn more. Tutorials online are great, but I prefer books and "offline" reading in general and would like to find out what the best design/cookbook PHP books are out there. I've read O'Reilly's "PHP in a Nutshell" and Apress' "PHP 5 Recipes A Problem Solution Approach" but found both of them lacking in depth (and even had some glaring design flaws, to some extent) and came across as more of a beginners book.
PHP Architects "Guide to PHP Security" was an excellent book and I'd like to find something like that, but not as focused on security but more on optimization, design patterns, and "best practices" (ugh, I hate that term, but you know what I mean).
Any recommendations?
Thanks
I guess I'd consider myself to be an intermediate PHP developer now (been doing Web development for about 5+ years, 2 of those PHP) and would like to learn more. Tutorials online are great, but I prefer books and "offline" reading in general and would like to find out what the best design/cookbook PHP books are out there. I've read O'Reilly's "PHP in a Nutshell" and Apress' "PHP 5 Recipes A Problem Solution Approach" but found both of them lacking in depth (and even had some glaring design flaws, to some extent) and came across as more of a beginners book.
PHP Architects "Guide to PHP Security" was an excellent book and I'd like to find something like that, but not as focused on security but more on optimization, design patterns, and "best practices" (ugh, I hate that term, but you know what I mean).
Any recommendations?
Thanks