On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Kirk Bailey <kbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > If I only had 1 book on php, what would it be? > > -- > end > > Very Truly yours, > - Kirk Bailey, > Largo Florida > > kniht > +-----+ > | BOX | > +-----+ > think > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > This is going to sound a little silly, but I'm going to say [drumroll...] K & R (The C Programming Language) Let me explain. I've recently reread (most of it anyway) K & R, and the whole time I was reading I felt like I was studying up on PHP just as much as C. There's no language that played a bigger role in the design decisions, and this is clearly evident when you listen to the core developers. In fact, even this past week Rasmus said on the PHP Dev list, "Argh! Everyone should be forced to learn a bit of C. Like many PHP functions, the name and argument order is right out of libc", a sentiment he's expressed before. I must admit that I tend to think of PHP as C code that includes garbage collection of lots of very practical web goodies. And, the book itself is a gem in terms of clarity, brevity, and sage advice. So, read (or read again for the umpteenth time) K & R, and then fill in the gaps with PHP.net. And, on the rare occasion you would need more speed than your PHP script is providing, you'll be able to write you're own extension to PHP using it's older brother, C. Adam -- Nephtali: A simple, flexible, fast, and security-focused PHP framework http://nephtaliproject.com
