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OOPHP

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:49 am
by feinstimmer
Can somebody reccomend good book about object-oriented PHP for beginners?Or good tutorial?Thanks!!

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:24 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Have you searched these forums yet? This question is asked like once every two weeks. I am sure you will find some good recommendations.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:44 pm
by Christopher
The problem with recommending books is that different people like different styles of books. There are a number of new PHP OO books around, such as the Head First books. I haven't read them but they are mentioned often. There there are modern programing books like Code Complete, Practical Programmer, etc. that will give you a lot of insight. There are classics like Object-Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer or Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Grady Booch. Then there are the patterns and design books. Martin Fowler has done several, Eric Gamma, Kent Beck, etc.

Ultimately the only way to understand this stuff is to bump up against actual problems, solve them poorly, and then learn a better practice. Building software is so counter-intuitive that you cannot acknowledge how to do it properly until you have tried to do it intuitively, felt like superman, and then later realized how bad your design and code was.

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:32 am
by feinstimmer
Thanks, specially for good advice!!

Re: OOPHP

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:22 am
by alvinphp
feinstimmer wrote:Can somebody reccomend good book about object-oriented PHP for beginners?Or good tutorial?Thanks!!
I have read a few PHP books and I would say PHP Professional by Wrox is by far the best if you want to learn OOP for PHP. It starts with the most basic OOP concepts and moves to the more advanced concepts. Besides OOP, the book also delves into some best practices of software development which can also be very helpful (if you didn't already know them).

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/ ... 72822.html