I'm in college and i've got a summer job in a recent web startup which requires me to code in PHP ..however I have no prev experience in PHP or any other scripting language for that matter ... however I'm a pretty neat C and C++ programmer and have quite a bit of Java programming experience as well ... so I really want somebody to recommend a good book for professional PHP scripting and give me some general tips on how PHP is different from C++ . Thanks in Advance .. Amal.
Thanks for the suggestion ... I have the lynda.com tutorials on my hard disk .... but I'm looking for a book I can keep on my desk and use as a reference, besides I'll have to join work starting the beginning of next month and I have my exams this whole month .. so I may not be able to watch the entire tutorials.
You may download PHP eBook from http://backlinkers.org/PHPbyExample.pdf. I used this book and it is very easy for beginners. I hope, it will be helpful for you too.
You should have no problem picking up php from either C(anything) or Java. This is my personal favorite resource. Will quickly go from start to advanced: http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp Also: http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp Essential: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ For cross language programmers: http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp/1/6/0 http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/teaching/topic/php.pdf http://www.saedm.com/about/phpforc.pdf The differences are a discussion in themself. One of the biggest differences is not having to compile code like you would with c++. Just edit upload and it compiles as it is run. Anyway these should get you pointed in the right direction. At this point, I don't think there is any print reference that isn't done better online.