23.12.2012 Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I know this question gets brought up quite often around the boards, but I'd appreciate your comments on the following matter.So I've read Head First PHP & MySQL, and it's been an awesome start, I've learnt a lot from reading it, as I've even created a custom web application to test with. But now I'd like to dive even further into PHP, and I've been looking at two books: Programming PHP and PHP 5 Advanced. My main focus is to learn PHP OOP and security enhancements from them, as these topics were not fully covered in the HF book. But I think I'll also want to achieve a better understanding of arrays and strings, as I'm still not confident about using them. By looking at the table of contents, I can see they also cover things like PDF generation or CLI PHP. Everything seems awesome to me, but I'd also like to have your opinion. Are the two good second-books on PHP? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 You should get Programming PHP. Every PHP programmer should get Programming PHP. I'm not familiar with the second book, but Ullman is a good author. If you get through those and still want some more books then you can get some special-topic books, e.g.:http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157135/http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529314/http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781593270773/http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006563/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaterdav85 Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 I would recommend PHP Object Oriented Solutions by David Powers. I started off learning procedural php in school and read through the HF PHP & MySQL book to fill in some holes. Then I moved on to PHP Object Oriented Solutions and it is a fantastic book for learning OOP in general and how to use it for those specific common tasks we typically do in php like data validation, dealing with dates, remote file connecting, simplexml etc. Plus, each chapter builds a class that you can take and use for your projects, so you learn how to build a class, test it throughout its development, and then finally use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23.12.2012 Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 Ok, I'm definitely going to purchase the two books, and look into others as soon as I've gathered enough knowledge from the two.So here's a new question: I want to buy the PDF for both of them. I can't see any PDF for Advanced PHP 5 on Amazon, and I bought an O'Reilly PDF some time ago, and the chapters were not divided as deep as HF PHP's. So what I think I'm going to end up doing is buying a Safari subscription. The 10 books/month seemes to be priced at $23/month. So I'd like to know if I can download the PDFs for both of the books. As far as I've understood, you can read it online, and then pay tokens to download entire chapters, or the entire book. I'm more interested in the latter, but will the PDF become unavailable (as in I won't be able to open/read it) after the subscription is ended? How does Safari work, exactly? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaterdav85 Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Check out PHP Object Oriented Solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23.12.2012 Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 I don't think you were allowed to post that link.I don't have the space needed to use both my PC and the paperback book at the same time, and reading the PDFs seemed to work better for me after a while. Also, there is no room for comparison between the digital search and the traditional search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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