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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. Forgot one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They forgot the most important article on PHP! What it is:

    http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/PHP

  2. PHP 5 Power Programming (Gutmans) by pestilence669 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This book was Slashdotted a few months ago. It's written and endorsed by members of the core PHP team. It's the most accurate language resource I've come across. It covers the PHP language, while I've found that other books tend to offer cookie-cutter "recipes" for common scenarios (code snippets). Sadly, its mention of interfaces is a bit sparse and it pre-dates PHP 5.1's PDO. Nevertheless, I still find it very relevant for anyone doing OOP with PHP. There are one or two gems not found in the online documentation.

    NOTE: It's better to have some PHP programming experience before reading.

    ISBN: 0-13-147149-X

  3. 5 good PHP sites by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Their list is great -- I'll be reading some of those articles for weeks before I get through them all. I'm especially interested in the 7 security blunders article. Nice!

    But they did leave off a lot of sites that are useful. Here are a few:

    • PHP Resource Index - a few thousand scripts for downloading, most free, all PHP.
    • PHP Builder Forums -- the PHP Builder site is pretty useful all by itself, but in the forums there are thousands of people willing to answer your PHP questions.
    • PHP Freaks -- one of the guys behind this site wrote a great PHP book. The site is excellent.
    • ADOdb Database Abstraction Layer -- okay, okay, this isn't really a site, so much as a product. But still, it's a very efficient DBAL, and it should be used for every database query.

    Anyone want to pitch in with some more? I'm sure there are some very useful sites that I've completely missed (and which the IBM site missed, too).

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