Am I buying the right book?
 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...649824-8691000

To learn PHP :D

Looks good n9ne:) But may I personally recomend:

PHP in easy steps (www.ineasysteps.com)

Very good for people like me:) (newbies)

You won the lottery. Yup, it is very very good book. Wrox books are one of best. :thumbsup:

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out :D

I started with that book. It's a great book. :)

i have that book, too. i just started on it, though.

I'm going to buy that Wrox book and the In-Easy-Steps book for PHP too. You can never get too much help ;)

Cool:)

Agreed, I have 2 PHP books (PHP in easy steps & Teach yourself PHP in 24 hours -Its not as corney as it sounds;))

I read about the teach yourself PHP in 24 hours...any good?

Not for begginers. It has great tutorials on images, and generally advanced stuff. But not for the beginner type. (Wish I knew that before I bought it)

Ok..*crosses off list*

I'm not even a beginner yet lol!

N9ne, why not go for "PHP and MySQL Web Development" By Welling & Thomson (Sams)? It is only great book on PHP from Sams.

If you want to compares or comments on these books, you can always go to Sitepointforum.com and check at PHP forums (be excat, go to Resources & Tutorials forums in PHP category, you ll find the 3 or 4 pages of PHP books, tutorials and reviews)

It is at Useful resources and books for anyone who wants to learn PHP and mySQL

does anyone know any online tutorials for learning php, i bought a book called PHP Developer's Cookbook, and even though i've read through most of it, i still have problems coding, so i'm looking for something online to help me out

I think www.php.net as some online docs

i've tried using php.net's tutorials, but they arn't all that helpful, i don't find the coding itself that hard, but piecing it together to actually put it to good use is my main trouble, i can preform most of the simple stuff from a tutorial, but using it to make something is beyond me

<font size="4">Beginning PHP4 Programming</font>
By: John Blank, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman

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Hehe sorry i couldn't resist..

- miSt

ULTIMATESSJ, I have tons of tutorial links, I can zip all of shortcuts up and post it that if you want..

heheheh, Hail Mist! Hail Beginning PHP4 Wrox!

that would be great, thanks a bunch

Ok here it is.. have fun =D but still recommend you to buy Beginning PHP4, it is best of the bestest. Anyway good luck

Don't get all excited :confused: :laugh:

Lol too late!

Thanks for those links Goldknight :)

Regards

- miSt

Ok l'm really lame and like n9ne apparently starting the learning curve, but this is kind of how l'm going....

An Idiots Guide to PHP and MySQL <- very basic but imparts the syntax to those of us used to more free flowing languages.

Following this (and it's only a feets wet sort of thing), will try and find something like PHP in a nutshell, which basically just describes the commands and functions (or whatever you call them in PHP) in the language. Then use the tried and true method of downloading code from planetsourcecode and apply some of the hacks from here.

Always find the easiest way to learn a language is to actually use it for projects, and ask a 101 questions on various boards.

Good luck n9ne.

P.S Put my first piece of code up on our board a while ago (basically a hacked copy of some one else's code), and missed a number of those ";" at the end of statements. LOL told ya l'm lame with PHP.... but for some web pages l'm writing actually got it to work straight off the bat so to speak.

I've got my Wrox Beginning PHP 4 book now!