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Recommended Reading List for PHP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'm-told-that's-a-popular-drug dept.

Steve writes "IBM developerWorks has put together a PHP recommended reading list. It provides resources for developers and admins adopting PHP and tackling advanced topics such as building extensions and writing secure code. There's also a list of books and blogs for keeping up with changes to the language itself."

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  1. Re:Ah, yes by lymond01 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Meh. For web-based applications on a small to medium level, PHP is the way to go. You can say it's just a scripting language and therefore not a "real" programming language if your definition of "real" does not include a language with defined syntax, for loops, variables, arrays, system calls, objects, classes, etc.

    But then what would you call it? An egg? No...that's taken by those round things chickens lay. I've no idea really. I'll just go with programming language and leave the modifiers out.

  2. Nooo!!!! by drew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is why I hate web programming and web programming languages:

    It provides resources for developers and admins adopting PHP and tackling advanced topics such as building extensions and writing secure code.

    Why is this considered an advanced topic? Security should be the first thing anyone writing software for the web learns. And web programing languages need to make it easy to write secure code by default. *Sigh*

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  3. Re:PHP, the web standard by Senzei · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The web hasn't standardised on PHP, there is an emacs mode for it, and you will probably come to hate it.

    It has always seemed like the bash of web programming, except uglier and slightly more difficult to use. It works, but if you push it too hard or the wrong way it feels like you are trying to make a mud sculpture.

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  4. Re:Queue anti-PHP jokes... by forkazoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I tried to add my joke to the queue, but do to a weak implimentation of object orientation and inconsistency, I was just left befuddled as to whether I needed to AddJokeToQueue, joke2queue, add_joke, etc. So, I gave up and just put my joke on rails... /me ducks...

    Seriously, I love PHP, but I think that it is designed to require having the docs handy... :)