Re: FN-FORUM: PHP book recommendation

date posted 17th April 2008 13:21

On Thursday 17 April 2008 15:03:33 Paul Cooper wrote:
> I've decided to learn PHP and would appreciate recommendations for
> books. I've been using ASP for several years, so if there is a book
> focused on converting skillsets, then all the better.

Many moons ago I purchased the Welling & Thomson book. It assumes
that you don't really need to be taught how to program, so spends most
of its time on *using* PHP for web stuff.

Hopefully by now they've addressed some of the shortcomings of the
1st edition.

There are some differences; here's some:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/010601-1.shtml

One you'll need to watch out for is that in C, PHP, and all sane languages
that I know of, if you write (in pseudo-code)
if (expr1 and expr2)
then expr2 only gets evaluated if expr1 is true, unlike the BASIC-derived
languages.