Best PHP Book

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@franz.. heeheheh dili ko mamaligya oiz.. heheheh makahatag rako nimo ug site kung asa ka maakdownload ug mga ebooks... kung gusto ka ug tipid. pero if nahan gud ka ug book gud. aw naa rana nimo...

ako mean naa pud ko a lot of ebooks na PHP and if you want.. pwede ko makahatag. hheheh just pm me lang.. anyway asa diay ka skul bro??

[ancientscar]

@franz.. heeheheh dili ko mamaligya oiz.. heheheh makahatag rako nimo ug site kung asa ka maakdownload ug mga ebooks... kung gusto ka ug tipid. pero if nahan gud ka ug book gud. aw naa rana nimo...

ako mean naa pud ko a lot of ebooks na PHP and if you want.. pwede ko makahatag. hheheh just pm me lang.. anyway asa diay ka skul bro??

bro, am interested in studying pHP pud, could you give me some sites or suggestions as to where maka get ug free ebooks or if you do have na, can you give me. bisag pang beginners lang sa ba or what. thanks in advance.

[cmontoya]

@ancientscar: If you have to the Internet 24x7, better visit http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp. I don't know if there are truly 'free' e-books. I know
of 'free to download' but definitely shouldn't 'download' if you know what I mean. Istorya.Net doesn't encourage IPR infringements here so try not to ask for
people to post links to sites that serve 'e-books.' You'll get a warning from the mods, pati pud nag-share. I'm not a hypo and say I don't download them, it's
just that Istorya.Net has set rules about this and we did agree to follow the rules when we registered.

I suggest you go to Amazon.com, search for PHP books using their Advanced Search and sort according to Customer Reviews. I bought books that were
rated 5 or 4.5 as long as no one reviewer gave it less than 3.

You need to download Apache too if you want PHP to work. I suggest you use XAMPP for a headache-less way to install and configure the environment you
need to develop PHP apps.

Sa 16 years nako sa IT industry, I've learned that learning the basics of a programming language usually takes me a week. Writing a program is another
matter but I think the other programming threads already said it, learn the basics, build bigger applications one component at a time. Since PHP is now an
object oriented programming language, better learn UML too para dili ka 'hack and slash' programmer. Usahay magkayamukat programs kay from requirements
to code dayon uban. Agi sa design. Dili man siguro pwede patukod balay, istorya tag-iya -> karpentero? tag-iya -> architect -> project manager -> engineers ->
workmen -> tester? ambot unsa equivalent ani sa civil engineering -> rework gamay (hopefully), then mansion na!

[ancientscar]

@ancientscar: If you have to the Internet 24x7, better visit http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp. I don't know if there are truly 'free' e-books. I know
of 'free to download' but definitely shouldn't 'download' if you know what I mean. Istorya.Net doesn't encourage IPR infringements here so try not to ask for
people to post links to sites that serve 'e-books.' You'll get a warning from the mods, pati pud nag-share. I'm not a hypo and say I don't download them, it's
just that Istorya.Net has set rules about this and we did agree to follow the rules when we registered.

I suggest you go to Amazon.com, search for PHP books using their Advanced Search and sort according to Customer Reviews. I bought books that were
rated 5 or 4.5 as long as no one reviewer gave it less than 3.

You need to download Apache too if you want PHP to work. I suggest you use XAMPP for a headache-less way to install and configure the environment you
need to develop PHP apps.

Sa 16 years nako sa IT industry, I've learned that learning the basics of a programming language usually takes me a week. Writing a program is another
matter but I think the other programming threads already said it, learn the basics, build bigger applications one component at a time. Since PHP is now an
object oriented programming language, better learn UML too para dili ka 'hack and slash' programmer. Usahay magkayamukat programs kay from requirements
to code dayon uban. Agi sa design. Dili man siguro pwede patukod balay, istorya tag-iya -> karpentero? tag-iya -> architect -> project manager -> engineers ->
workmen -> tester? ambot unsa equivalent ani sa civil engineering -> rework gamay (hopefully), then mansion na!

your right bro, we should not tolerate piracy kumbaga, 'coz if you're into free things in the net then you'll be considered as pirate as well if you do download. and thanks for the advice about programming basics. i'll try to find some info about UML too. by the way, where ka ga work as programmer?

thanks again & God bless...

[cmontoya]

@ancientscar: I don't consider myself a career programmer although I held a few jobs (both as an employee and an independent agent) before
that required me to program. I'm an assistant manager @ NEC (IT Park) managing a small team of diversely talented people providing internal
consultancy on quality and productivity. Rght now I'm creating a course about using Excel VBA 6.5 (dili pa Office 2007's .NET) so project leaders
and project QA-staff can develop Excel applications to boost their productivity (imagine manually copying records from hundreds of files manually
versus using scripts to read them automatically).

I also don't consider myself an expert in any one programming language. I think one doesn't have to. The truth is, it's better to be an expert
in a domain rather than a programming language. That is, if you want to be a game developer, then you have to play a lot of games, relearn
math and physics, and then find out where you want to excel - 3D graphiics, sound, tools, AI, UI, ... If you want to be a business applications
programmer, then you have to learn not just accounting but other aspects of business, then find out your niche, ganahan ba ka payroll,
inventory, sales, contracts, etc. Try to be an expert in one, but good in the others, plus maybe dablle a bit in another domain (I mean I heard
stories of web developers becoming game developers. I even met a doctor who became a Visual Basic programmer).

Hey, don't get me wrong. Istorya does not tolerate piracy. I didn't say I don't. I was just saying we shouldn't be overt about it here

Sige bai, good luck. Hinay hinay lang. Dali ra lagi tuon programming language, ang lisod is ang pagbuhat application na gusto sa imo clients (mao
importante dyud requirements engineering maski one man shop ra ka kay kapoy, "I forgot syndrome".)