[vox-tech] book recommendation: php

[Peter Jay Salzman]

i think i might go with just using the online reference, but also
picking up the o'reilly pocket reference from nerdbooks.com for off-line
reading.

using the online manual, i was able to whip this up in just a few
*minutes*.   it's quite a good manual!

http://www.dirac.org/p/crypto/index.php3

basically, it takes a string and encrypts it using a single substitution
cipher.   eventually, i'd like to turn this into an interactive
cryptogram site.

php is _cool_.

ok, curiosity satified.  going back to real work...

pete




begin David Margolis <margolid@ecs.csus.edu> 
> 
> I second Rod's opinion.  Of the two PHP books I've tried (Professional
> PHP by Wrox and the PHP Blackbook) I've found the content to jump from
> basic programming to not-very-helpful-yet-complecated examples.  I started
> mostly with the manual, and I still use it every day.  The only downside
> of the manual is that if you don't know it exists, you don't know to go
> looking for it, and you might find it easier in a good "in a nutshell"
> style book ...
> 
> Here's an example.  I spent way more time than I needed to writing a
> string parsing routine that stipped ascii returns and replaced them with
> <br> ("\n" to "<br>").  After struggling with it not quite doing what I
> wanted, I found that php has a function that does just that.
> 
> So it all depends on how you work/search.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Rod Roark wrote:
> 
> > I've always just used their on-line manual.  It's very good.
> >
> >   http://www.php.net/manual/en/
> >
> > -- Rod
> >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> >
> > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:49 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > if i were to have just *one* book on php, what would people recommend?
> > >
> > > i'd prefer to have a book that assumes i know what a if/else do/while
> > > constructs are.   i know what arrays and strings are; i just want to
> > > know how to do them with php.   :)
> > >
> > > so maybe a good reference book.   i've found o'reilly's html book to be
> > > precisely what i'm looking for (for html).
> > >
> > > any recommendations for php?
> > >
> > > pete