PHP

Jason Carson jason-HjkH5KTEMfuEjziKL+yzSg at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 30 23:25:27 UTC 2009


> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:33 AM, William O'Higgins
> Witteman<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:28:00AM -0400, Jason Carson wrote:
>>>
>>>Does anyone know the difference between "Programming PHP" and "Learning
>>>PHP5". Both are published by O'reilly.
>>
>> Assuming that it is like any other "learning/programming" O'Reilly
>> books, the Learning title is a beginner book that covers the basics, and
>> the Programming book assumes you can already program, and just need to
>> know how the language works, the pitfalls and the details.  There is
>> usually a much larger section explaining the common or included
>> libraries as well.  The Programming book will also be three times
>> thicker, and a better value/reference than the Learning book.
>> --
>>
>> yours,
>>
>> William
>>
>
> Seconding Mr. Witteman here. In the case of Programming Perl and
> Learning Perl, it's exactly this way. Learning Perl is a beginner's
> introduction. By contrast, well, "Programming Perl" is sometimes
> called "The Perl Bible" for a reason.
>
> Personally, I'd go for "Programming PHP", but that depends on your own
> background and whatnot.
>
> - Mike
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ok, great, thanks for info guys :-)

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