Beginning PHP 5.3, Matt Doyle, Wiley, 2010
Web programmers will want this. It is practical, and has many examples. 750 pages.
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Beginning PHP 5.3
Monday, August 16th, 2010WordPress 2.7 Complete
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
WordPress 2.7 Complete : create your own complete blog or website from scratch with WordPress / April Hodge Silver, Hasin Hayder, Packt, 2009
A user manual for Wordpress which starts with the basics of setting up a blog and ventures as far as customizing the site with plugins in PHP. The last few chapters are valuable to the reader, because the online Wordpress guides are not always well organized. 250 pages.
How to do everything : Facebook Applications
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
How to do everything : Facebook Applications / Jesse Feiler, McGraw-Hill, 2008
The first half of this book just introduces the Facebook platform. Then it gets into the coding of apps using PHP, CSS, SQL, and FBML (Facebook Markup Language). 300 pages.
Understanding Drupal
Monday, January 18th, 2010Understanding Drupal [videorecording (DVD)] / Lullabot, Inc
Lullabot creates web sites for MTV, Sony, and other large companies. This video is an overview of developing a site with Drupal.
Pro Drupal
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Pro Drupal Development / John K. VanDyk, Apress, 2008
Drupal is a powerful CMS and this book is a solid, well written description for developers. It will be useful if you are programming a web app or a Drupal module. 600 pages.
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Learning Drupal 6 Module Development : a practical tutorial for creating your first Drupal 6 modules with PHP / Matt Butcher, Packt Publishing, 2008
For CMS programmers. 300 pages.
Internet & World Wide Web : how to program
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Internet & World Wide Web : how to program / P.J. Deitel, H.M. Deitel, Pearson Prentice Hall 2008
This book is an excellent guide to programming web apps. Flash, Flex, PHP, Ruby, AJAX, DB’s, CSS, DOM, RSS… A colorful cover that will wake you up, and 1350 pages!!
Professional PHP6
Friday, June 12th, 2009Professional PHP6 / Ed Lecky-Thompson, Wiley, 2009
This book is not for beginners, and includes sections on object oriented PHP, authentication, project management, performance, and career planning. 700 pages.
Head first PHP & MySQL
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Head first PHP & MySQL / Lynn Beighley, Michael Morrison, O’Reilly, 2009
A tutorial with visual gags that will keep anyone, teen or older, glued to the pages. It still retains the great O’Reilly quality. 750 pages.
Essential PHP security
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Essential PHP security / Chris Shiflett, O’Reilly, 2006
This 100 page slim book is required reading for all PHP programmers (that’s all of us, isn’t it?)