PHP Bible

This book is simply GREAT! All your doubts about PHP will disappear... it contains absolutely all that you want to know about PHP to make great applications related with your website. One of the best things about this book is that you can start from ZERO. You don't have to be an expert computer engineer nor know anything about PHP, it is explained here from the most simple variable to the most complicated and advanced technique between PHP and MySQL. It contains a lot of information (well, it's a big book... more that 1000 pages) and a lot of examples that are so simple that anyone could understand. Also, this book talk about many other issues related with PHP, like Data Bases, XML, etc... Buy it, I really recommend it for ANYONE... A LITTLE WARNING: If you want to use this great book, you have to know at least a little bit of HTML, because PHP is a language that improves HTML... If you don't know anything about HTML, you'll not love this book as much as I love it... so, I recommend that before you get this book, you study some HTML : )

I was very pleased when I received this book (and ,in general, am very happy with most of the "______ Bible" reference books). As an experienced ASP, VBScript, PERL, etc... programmer, when I was appoached to write a site in PHP, I needed a book to get me up to speed in this language with the quickness. Explains everything from deployment to security concerns in an easy to read fashion, covers all of the usual suspects (POST, GET, ODBC, fair amount of mySQL, etc...) and common PHP conventions/algorithms.

I am a php programmer at UNL. I have been using this book for some time. PHP bible (2nd ed) is a great book for the beginners and intermediate programmers. And it also includes directions for the advanced users where to find code pieces, classes or programming techniques (like PEAR). The Language of this book is clear and concise. And the code samples works perfectly. If you are interested in PHP, this book is definitely worth checking out.

I'm a PHP beginner-intermediate, and I use this book on an open source project called mod_pubsub as my primary PHP reference for PHP through 4.2. The authors have an easy-to-read style, and they are very honest when it comes to what PHP can and cannot do. I definitely recommend this book for other PHP beginners and intermediates.

I have bought a lot of books about a lot of computer-subjects but I have never bought a book where the information was so well structured and explained. It is a perfect guide for php beginners (such as myself about a month ago) and I have the impression that this book is a great addition to the knowledge of more advanced php users. With a lot of "ready-to-use" scripts they quide you from beginning php towards becomming an advanced php programmer. I began this book about one month ago and now I am programming more serious work with great help from this book. If you chouse to start programming php or want an addition to you're current knowledge this bookshould be more than satisfying.