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Mac Player

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Jan 19, 2006
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Hi, what is the best book to start coding some php for a programmer that already knows C, Ruby, Python and Java?

TIA
 

Darran

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I have actually purchased 2 of Larry Ullman's books to help me with PHP, according to many, he is highly recommended. Spent about 64 USD on his books from Amazon.
 

kriskkalu

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Jan 5, 2007
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Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL - By Kevin Yank

Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL - By Kevin Yank
is a really great book. It's now in it's 3rd edition.

I built this dating site from reading his book.

Visit sitepoint.com for more info about the book.

Good luck.

Kris.
 

Mac Player

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Jan 19, 2006
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Thanks everyone. I already read the php tutorials from the wc3 schools and I found out php to be quite horrid (had some contact with rails before). Anyway I saw this framework which allows me to map URLs to functions inside a php file. The fact is I don't really understand how that magic works that's why I want to learn php more deeply before using it.
 

alembic

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Oct 13, 2005
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Development Tools

I built this dating site from reading his book.
Hi Kris, your site is like what I've been wanting to create as well, a fun way to explore web development on the LAMP platform (in contrast my office projects are all ASP.NET). What development tools are you using, in particular the IDE? Thanks.
 
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