PHP Black Book
The book on PHP. Speaking with just a little bias, this is the book to buy if you have any web or programming experience and want to learn PHP 4.
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For people starting at the beginning, a book on HTML is step one toward setting up a web site. The next requirement is some knowledge of images with perhaps a little image editing experience. From there, proceed to an all in one book with chapters on browsers, web servers, Apache in particular and written for the operating system you use.
Once you have the concepts and have created a static HTML based web page, it is time to use PHP. The PHP Black Book assumes some programming experience although the language does not matter. PHP is easy to relate to Visual Basic, C and parts of Perl. I found moving from Visual Basic to PHP easier than moving from one version of Visual Basic to another.
The PHP Black Book includes enough information to use SQL and databases like MySQL. There are chapters on International Web sites, server to server communications, XML, and all the important areas of Web site programming.
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Contents at a Glance
The PHP Black Book contains the following chapters.
