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After much procrasnating I decided I finally want to take up PHP, though I'm in between which book to get.

I'm deciding between

Amazon.com: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual QuickPro Guide): Larry Ullman: Books

^^Goes over PHP 5 and MYSQL 4.1

Then there is:

Amazon.com: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide: Larry Ullman: Books

^^Goes over PHP 6 and MYSQL 5

Anyone have any suggestions on what to go with? Currently my host runs PHP 4 and 5 with MYSQL 5.0.45. Is there that much difference between PHP 6 and 5? Would I be fine just getting the first book or should I go with the second? Thanks!
 


Sitepoint has a couple of good php books..

Database driven website using php mysql
and
php anthology volume 1 and 2

I have all three and they are very good... not sure if they have been updated for php5 yet though.. there are some example chapters on sitepioint so you can see if you like them or not..
 
there is no point in buying a book... you can get the information for free at hundreds of sites... or just torrent the book and realize that it sucks.

I look at the O'Reilly PHP mysql book, and its the most worthless piece of crap
 
Rascagua said:
there is no point in buying a book... you can get the information for free at hundreds of sites... or just torrent the book and realize that it sucks.

I look at the O'Reilly PHP mysql book, and its the most worthless piece of crap
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I totally disagree...

with a book you can sit yourself down and digest the information better... i admit you could probably get for free off a torrent or fileshare then print out but its still way better than reading online...

each to their own i guess...

hey why not do both :)
 
having the book in your hands can be helpful i guess, but what's the point if you can't test what you're reading? may as well read it in a tab while you code.
 
or have a giant-ass monitor like a lot of these graphic designer types do these days.
57" LCD display, holy cow!
 
MCRunning said:
Amazon.com: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide: Larry Ullman: Books

^^Goes over PHP 6 and MYSQL 5
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good man, begin learning a PHP version that isn't out yet or isn't production ready anyway.
there is no point in buying a book... you can get the information for free at hundreds of sites... or just torrent the book and realize that it sucks. I look at the O'Reilly PHP mysql book, and its the most worthless piece of crap
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qft. nothing like buying loads of books to make ya feel good about yourself and reading none of them. spent about €150 on neural networks and data mining books, haven't opened one yet, learnt everything from an ebook torrent.
 
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The Larry Ullman Visual Quickpro book is what I have. The formatting is confusing (i.e., there are two columns on every page, and frequently you'll have a program listing box right next to another program listing excerpt).

I am self taught from web tutorials and the PHP online manual, and I've only learned like two new things.

I wouldn't recommend it.
 
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