hi guys, i'm a half-noob in PHP i've started to write some code a few months ago, and so far have written a couple things like user-based system, HTML parser, content management system (an easy version), a shopping card and staff like that (all of them include MySQL parts) Can someone please recommend me a good book to continue from here? I would prefer something with lot of good functions to know and with "best programming practice" tips. I guess i'm lacking on the security part as well Please just name a couple of books, and if possible bring the URLs from amazon or somewhere where i can buy it Thanks
Having read just about every book on PHP there is (including Schlossnagle's "Advanced PHP" back in the day), I can wholeheartedly recommend PHP 5 in Practice (publisher's link). The book is an incredible overview of features and functions, and the sample code is outstanding, useful and useable. Lots of examples which address "real world" programming situations and which you could deploy with very little modification. Also, the authors write very clean PHP and have a very good style; one could learn a lot just from looking at how they structure their code, name their variables, etc. Based on what you say you've written and what you're looking for, I think you'd get a tremendous amount of use from this book.
Thanks for the input guys. I would appreciate to see some more .. anyone else has an opinion please ? Thanks