Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes
by Alpha01
It took me roughly about seven years to finish reading this book from cover to cover. I originally bought this book because I wanted to learn PHP. As my very first PHP book, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes by Chris Newman is a short straight to the point. Over all I found the examples pretty easy to follow and although at this point in time this book is now somewhat outdated (book uses functions that are now deprecated), I still think this book is a really good reference for anyone wanting to learn how to program in PHP. I would not however, make it the only source when learning PHP, as I personally saw this book as a more thoroughly comprehensive explanation of the php.net documentation.
Rating 3/5
Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes
- Lesson 1: Getting to Know PHP
- Lesson 2: Variables
- Lesson 3: Flow Control
- Lesson 4: Functions
- Lesson 5: Working with Numbers
- Lesson 6: Working with Strings
- Lesson 7: Working with Arrays
- Lesson 8: Regular Expressions
- Lesson 9: Working with Dates and Times
- Lesson 10: Using Classes
- Lesson 11: Processing HTML Forms
- Lesson 12: Generating Dynamic HTML
- Lesson 13: Form Validation
- Lesson 14: Cookies and Sessions
- Lesson 15: User Authentication
- Lesson 16: Communicating with the Web Server
- Lesson 17: Filesystem Access
- Lesson 18: Host Program Execution
- Lesson 19: Using a MySQL Database
- Lesson 20: Database Abstraction
- Lesson 21: Running PHP on the Command Line
- Lesson 22: Error Handling and Debugging
- Lesson 23: PHP Configuration
- Lesson 24: PHP Security
- Lesson 25: Using PEAR
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