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    http://www.rune-boards.bloodhosting....1210780288.rar

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    Hello guys.. i recently decided to go out and learn php.. I looked on google, yahoo, msn, all teh search engines i could for tuts.. i couldn't find any that taught me enough of what i needed to know.. until a mate of mine told me about this book... this book is everything you will ever need to get started into php.. its got it all from what php is to coding in framework.. it is great for people who have never coded.. or only coded a bit.. or even for experts that wanna learn php. So i suggest you give this book a try if you want a wack at it.. if anyone would like to confirm that this book is good that would be great here is the intro right out of the book.

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    Introduction
    
    This is a book about PHP, arguably the most popular Web scripting language in the world. It is also a book about programming. In the space available, it is neither possible to create a complete guide to programming in PHP nor to cover every function and technique PHP offers. Nevertheless, whether you are an experienced programmer considering a move to PHP or a newcomer to scripting, the steps in this book should provide enough information to get your journey off to a good start.
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    Who Should Read This Book?
    
    This book will take you from the first principles through to a good working knowledge of the PHP programming language. No prior experience of programming is assumed, although if you have worked with a language such as C or Perl in the past, you will find the going much easier.
    
    PHP is a Web programming language. To get the most from this book, you should have some understanding of the World Wide Web and of HTML in particular. If you are just starting out, you will still be able to use this book, although you should consider acquiring an HTML tutorial. If you are comfortable creating basic documents and can build a basic HTML table, you will be fine.
    
    PHP is designed to integrate well with databases. Some of the examples in this book are written to work with SQL databases. We include a short introduction to SQL, but if you intend to use PHP to work with databases, you might want to spend some time reading up on the subject. Numerous introductory SQL tutorials are available online. If you intend to work with a database other than MySQL, many of the examples in this book will be relatively easy to reproduce with the equivalent PHP functions designed to query your database.
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    How This Book Is Organized. This book is divided into four parts:
    
    Part I, "Getting Started," is an introduction to PHP.
    
    Part II, "The Language," covers the basic features of the language. Pay particular attention to this section if you are new to programming.
    
    Part III, "Working with PHP," covers PHP in more detail, looking at the functions and techniques you will need to become a proficient PHP programmer.
    
    Part IV, "Extending PHP," examines library code, both code that you can create yourself and PEAR, a repository of library code you can include in your own projects.
    
    Part I contains Hours 1–3 and handles the information you will need to get your first script up and running:
    
    Hour 1, "PHP: From Home Page to Web Enterprise," describes the history and capabilities of PHP and looks at some of the compelling reasons for deciding to learn this scripting language.
    
    Hour 2, "Installing PHP," explains how to install PHP on a Unix system and discusses some of the configuration options you might want to choose when compiling PHP. In this hour, we also examine ways of configuring PHP after it is installed.
    
    Hour 3, "A First Script," covers the different ways in which you can embed a PHP script in a document and create a script that writes text to the user's browser.
    
    Part II comprises Hours 4–9. In this part, you will learn the basic components of the PHP language:
    
    Hour 4, "The Building Blocks," covers the basics of PHP. You will learn about variables, data types, operators, and expressions.
    
    Hour 5, "Going with the Flow," covers the syntax for controlling program flow in your scripts. In addition to if and switch constructs, you will learn about loops using for and while statements.
    
    Hour 6, "Functions," explores the use of functions to organize your code.
    
    Hour 7, "Arrays," discusses the array data type that can be used to hold list information. We will also look at some of the functions PHP provides to manipulate arrays.
    
    Hour 8, "Working with Strings," covers the functions you can use to manipulate strings.
    
    Hour 9, "Objects," introduces PHP's support for classes and objects. Throughout the course of the hour, we will develop a working example.
    
    Part III consists of Hours 10–22. In this part, you will come to grips with the features and techniques of the language:
    
    Hour 10, "Working with Forms," introduces the dimension of user input through the mechanism of the HTML form. You will learn how to gather data submitted via a form.
    
    Hour 11, "Working with Files," shows you how to work with files and directories on the local machine.
    
    Hour 12, "Working with the DBA Functions," demonstrates PHP's support for DBM-style database systems, versions of which are available on most systems.
    
    Hour 13, "Database Integration—SQL," provides a brief introduction to SQL syntax and introduces functions and classes for working with the MySQL database, the SQLite library, and the PEAR::DB package.
    
    Hour 14, "Beyond the Box," covers some of the details of HTTP requests and looks at PHP network functions.
    
    Hour 15, "Images On-the-Fly," explores PHP's image functions. With these, you can create PNG files dynamically.
    
    Hour 16, "Working with Dates and Times," covers the functions and techniques you can use for date arithmetic. We create a calendar example.
    
    Hour 17, "Advanced Objects," examines PHP's new extended support for objects and object-oriented techniques.
    
    Hour 18, "Working with Regular Expressions," introduces regular expression functions. You can use these to find and replace complex patterns in strings.
    
    Hour 19, "Saving State with Cookies and Query Strings," shows you some techniques for passing information across scripts and requests.
    
    Hour 20, "Saving State with Session Functions," extends the techniques explored in Hour 19, using PHP's built-in session functions.
    
    Hour 21, "Working with the Server Environment," shows you how to call external programs from your scripts and incorporate their output into your own.
    
    Hour 22, "XML," looks at PHP's support for the Extensible Markup Language (XML). We examine the XML Parser functions as well as more advanced topics such as DOM and XSLT.
    
    Part IV consists of Hours 23 and Hours 24. In these, we move beyond the core language to examine the ways in which libraries can be used to extend PHP's functionality:
    
    Hour 23, "PEAR: Reusable Components to Extend the Power of PHP," introduces the PHP Extension and Application Repository. You learn how to install packages and work with some examples.
    
    Hour 24, "Towards a Framework for Larger Projects," builds up a code library of your own. We explore some techniques that might be used in deploying a Front Controller enterprise pattern. This example utilizes some of PHP's most advanced object-oriented features.
    
    Finally, we include a glossary that defines some of the more technical terms you might encounter as you work through the book.
    So if you decide to read it its great to write down some stuff on paper and study a bit when your off pc..

    I am still taking notes ive done 5 pages front and back now.. im on Hour 4: constants..

    Thank you all!!

    This gives you many, many, quizzes after every hour so dont cheat lolz.. gl guys i will try to gather more resources and let you all know of them asap.
     

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    It actually doesnt take 24 hours I finished it in 5 including me doing all of the coding and stuff it said for me to do, I skipped the install php on my comp part though xD
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    bet you didn't read it thoroughly and get all the knowledge it gives though.
     

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    I never read one book about PHP for my knowledge, and I already know how to do pretty much anything. I personally think the key to learning a language is getting ideas of web applications to structure; you go out there and figure out how to build something peice by peice and eventually you've learned another thing or two about the language.

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    is serisiuly cul.

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    Same with me Zachera. I learn as I go on. I Explore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Razar View Post
    bet you didn't read it thoroughly and get all the knowledge it gives though.
    I didnt need to, it told me stuff I already knew.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Supah Fly View Post
    I didnt need to, it told me stuff I already knew.
    /repeats what Supah Fly said

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    lolz i gotta read it cause im noob and no1 will post good tutorials on here >.< not good beginner tutorials *thats your Q Zachera and Dj Dan, and Cursed..* you guys need to team up and make a SUPER Guide!!!!!



    LOL I posted this on the day i turned 16.
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    F*ck the rest join the best, WoR

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    Thank you very much i will be reading this to night


    The wor has begun.

     

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    xD we have a reader
     

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