The most useful book I’ve seen for PHP isn’t a book at all: it’s the PHP web site at http://php.net/.
“The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.”
- Programming is Easy
- Programming is pretty easy. You find the function that does what you want, and you stick it in your web page; or you do a web search on “PHP” and whatever it is you want to do, and you find a snippet of code to copy and paste into your web page. Programming is simple; programming well is an art. It’s an art with only a few rules, simple to learn and difficult to master.
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