php

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  Does anybody have recommendations for a good book and/or
websites
for beginning php?

Thanks
Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
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I'll kick in the obligatory http:/www.w3schools.com/php/ ;
also, I've been
working with a book about using PHP in conjunction with a
relational
database (specifically MySQL, but adaptible to others) to
create sites with
a DB back-end: PHP and MySQL for dynamic web sites / Larry
Ullman.  It reads
well, with good examples of fairly complex real-world
applications.  I'm not
sufficiently informed at this point to know for sure, but
I'm left feeling
that his treatment of security stops short of all one has to
know in order
to develop a site for handling more sensitive info like
financials, medical,
etc.

Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY  10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
yitzchastouro.edu
 

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Colleagues:

  Does anybody have recommendations for a good book and/or
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beginning php?

Thanks
Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
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I'll kick in the obligatory http:/www.w3schools.com/php/ ;
also, I've been
working with a book about using PHP in conjunction with a
relational
database (specifically MySQL, but adaptible to others) to
create sites with
a DB back-end: PHP and MySQL for dynamic web sites / Larry
Ullman.  It reads
well, with good examples of fairly complex real-world
applications.  I'm not
sufficiently informed at this point to know for sure, but
I'm left feeling
that his treatment of security stops short of all one has to
know in order
to develop a site for handling more sensitive info like
financials, medical,
etc.

Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY  10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
yitzchastouro.edu
 

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Subject: [Web4lib] php

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  Does anybody have recommendations for a good book and/or
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beginning php?

Thanks
Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
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Ray,

The books that I found most useful were:

PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy 
by David Powers  
and
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional,
Second Edition by W.
Jason Gilmore

You could also try the Riley PHP cookbook for ideas once you
get up and
running with PHP.

Once you learn what you can from these books then you can
move on to one of
the more formal PHP books and they will make a lot more
sense. You'll also
be able to pick out all the errors.

Good luck with your PHP endeavors.

Rob 

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Ray,

The books that I found most useful were:

PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy 
by David Powers  
and
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional,
Second Edition by W.
Jason Gilmore

You could also try the Riley PHP cookbook for ideas once you
get up and
running with PHP.

Once you learn what you can from these books then you can
move on to one of
the more formal PHP books and they will make a lot more
sense. You'll also
be able to pick out all the errors.

Good luck with your PHP endeavors.

Rob 

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Ray, 

The w3c schools has a tutorial that is good for beginning
PHP at
http://www.w
3schools.com/php/default.asp and the PHP web site at
http://www.php.net/ under
'getting help' in the top menu has a list of
resources including books for PHP. 

Michael Sutherland 

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Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
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Ray, 

The w3c schools has a tutorial that is good for beginning
PHP at
http://www.w
3schools.com/php/default.asp and the PHP web site at
http://www.php.net/ under
'getting help' in the top menu has a list of
resources including books for PHP. 

Michael Sutherland 

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I have been reading David Powers' "The Essential Guide
to Dreamweaver CS3, Ajax, and PHP." Its a reworking of
his "Foundation PHP for Dreamwaver 8". I find his
instructions and explanations incredibly detailed and
methodical. Both books go over how to set up PHP and MySQL
on both PCs and Macs and then use DW to create dynamic
sites.   If you already use DW it's a pretty satisfactory
coding environment. 
 


>>> On 10/15/2007 at 8:25 PM, in message
<1198792c0710152025g42033772u50b21e90b4c2b9b1mail.gmail.com>, "Raumin "Ray"
Dehghan" <infoscience1gmail.com> wrote:
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  Does anybody have recommendations for a good book and/or
websites
for beginning php?

Thanks
Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
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I have been reading David Powers' "The Essential Guide
to Dreamweaver CS3, Ajax, and PHP." Its a reworking of
his "Foundation PHP for Dreamwaver 8". I find his
instructions and explanations incredibly detailed and
methodical. Both books go over how to set up PHP and MySQL
on both PCs and Macs and then use DW to create dynamic
sites.   If you already use DW it's a pretty satisfactory
coding environment. 
 


>>> On 10/15/2007 at 8:25 PM, in message
<1198792c0710152025g42033772u50b21e90b4c2b9b1mail.gmail.com>, "Raumin "Ray"
Dehghan" <infoscience1gmail.com> wrote:
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I use the PHP / MySQL book from PeachTree books.  It seems
to have all of the essential information that is useful and
clearly written.  I'm very new at it and am already
beginning to develop Web pages using php.
 
Nic
 
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>>> "Raumin "Ray" Dehghan"
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