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PHP

Oğulcan Girginc
Oğulcan Girginc
24,848 Points
Posted by Oğulcan Girginc
Oğulcan Girginc
24,848 Points

What are your book recommendations for PHP?

Hi,

I have been searching for a PHP book for couple of weeks, which has a similar style to Jon Duckett's HTML&CSS and JavaScript&jQuery. However, I couldn't find any. I even e-mailed to Mr.Duckett and he told me; he isn't aware of any PHP books in same or similar style.

I am curios, if any of you know something similar? If not, what is your choice of PHP book?

(If you are looking for a HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery books, I would recommend Jon Ducketts'. In my opinion, they are the best!)

Thanks,

2 Answers

Matt F.
Matt F.
9,518 Points
Matt F.
Matt F.
9,518 Points

Yes. It can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Cookbook-Solutions-Examples-Programmers/dp/144936375X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423959567&sr=8-1&keywords=php+cookbook

It isn't the most 'instructive' book, but if you can reverse engineer the code, it is great.

Oğulcan Girginc
Oğulcan Girginc
24,848 Points
Oğulcan Girginc
Oğulcan Girginc
24,848 Points

I own that one. It's pretty good but not what I am looking for. I am more interested in a book which is visually striking like examples above in my post.

Still, thank you! :)

Matt F.
Matt F.
9,518 Points
Matt F.
Matt F.
9,518 Points

I liked the PHP Cookbook. It gives you example code that you can type in. After understanding how the codes worked, I enjoyed going through and just adding/deleting code to see how it impacted the code. It was also cool because it gives you examples of how it would be used in real-life scenarios.