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PHP in a Nutshell
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PHP in a Nutshell

by Paul Hudson
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
372 pages
11h 35m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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PHP Resources

If you're looking to learn more about PHP and related topics like databases, security, and XML, try starting with something from these lists.

Books

A Practical Guide to Curl by Kevin Hanegan (Charles River Media)

Quite a slow read, but you will learn a lot from it despite it being relatively short.

Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle (Sams)

Pitched at quite a high level, but it is the only book currently available that deals exclusively with making PHP work in highly scalable environments.

Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier (Springer)

If you want a general introduction to the field of security, this is for you.

Disappearing Cryptography by Peter Wayner (Morgan Kaufmann)

Highly recommended as a general introduction to Crypto topics.

Database Systems by Thomas Connolly et al. (Addison-Wesley)

An excellent all-around reference to database theory and SQL.

Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett (O'Reilly)

Soon to be released, but my copy is already on pre-order.

HTML and XHTML by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (O'Reilly)

A long but worthwhile read that can take you quite far in the topic.

Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar (O'Reilly)

This is the easiest way to learn PHP 5 from scratch.

MySQL by Paul DuBois (Sams) and PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas (Sams)

These are exceptionally comprehensive books and should really be on the bookshelves of all serious MySQL/PostgreSQL database adminstrators.

PHP Cookbook by David Sklar et al. (O'Reilly)

A bit out of date, but it's still an excellent, ...

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