PHP: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content

by Paul Whitehead

This full color book is the only PHP title available that is designed for the visual learner. It covers over 100 tasks! Including using cookies to monitor the activity of Web site visitors to retrieving information from Oracle, MySql and Microsoft databases, creating images and Web pages on the fly and processing XML documents.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology

304 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2001

Reviews

[Jeremy Matters · Rating 5 out of 5]

A goldmine for anyone starting out in PHP. Even after writing PHP for several years, I still use my beaten up, dog-eared, index-tabbed version almost every day.

The approach is different, as it breaks the subject material into 2-4 page sections based on common programming needs. This is extremely useful to people who already know how to program in other languages. Instead of bogging you down with fundamentals, you can start programming immediately.
In terms of the book itself, the two-color aspect (black and blue) makes it extraordinarily readable, and the binding has lasted far longer than I ever expected, considering the kind of abuse I give my copy. In addition, this edition comes with a CD with text and exercises, if you'd like to avoid retyping things.