Re: book recommendation for experienced programmer?

From: Jochen Buennagel (zang.NOSPAM_at_buennagel.com)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:49:12 +0100

NotGiven wrote:
> What book do you recommend help take me there? A book that would not
> necesarily be a reference but a coach teaching me, presenting me with
> different problems and telling me how a PHP expert would solve the problem.

Most PHP books are either pretty basic or just a beefed up reference, so
I mostly reed non-PHP books now that really help me, like the ones
Martin Fowler writes (read "Refactoring" and "Pattrns of Enterprise
Application Architecture"), or "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Hunt/Thomas
(highly recommended).

Of the PHP variety, I can recommend "Core PHP Programming, 3rd ed." by
Atkinson/Surasky, which is a reference but goes very deep into the usage
of various (families of) functions, gives optimizing hints etc.

The other one is the "PHP Cookbook" by Sklar/Trachtenberg, which
contains a lot of recipies for common and not-so-common problems.

Jochen

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