PHP/MySQL Books Recommandation Please!

glambert

Hey there fellow coders,

After working for a while with PHP and browsing/reading around the net, I want to go further in my learning and buy a book to learn from.

Here are my points of interest:

PHP/MySQL Application Design (database organisation, folder organisation, functions organisation, how to in general)
PHP/MySQL Application Architecture (kinda like the first one)
PHP advanced coding tips/tricks/articles/tutorials. Everything a advanced coder should know about.
CMS (especially that, like the Tier concepts, which I'm not really familiar with but seem the professional way to work with)
Coding standards and everything AROUND built-in functions and copy and paste coding.

As you can see, a book with complete scripts is not what I'm looking for, because I'd rather do it from scratch and learn from my errors than copy and paste and not understand how it really works. What I'm searching for is the 'how-to' and not the show-me-a-code type of book.

If you have many suggestions, please write them up, I would be more than pleased to hear them!

P.S - Should I wait for a PHP5 book too?

Thanks

jpmoriarty

php and mysql web development by luke welling and laura thompson

OhLordy

Professional PHP4 by Wrox

glambert

Originally posted by jpmoriarty
php and mysql web development by luke welling and laura thompson

This is one of the book I was looking at. But there is also a second edition, should I go with the 2nd or edition or stick with the 1st one?

I red user comments for the 2nd and they are not too good, saying its more a book beginners, and I dont want that.

1st edition: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672317842/qid=1049989427/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/102-6175350-8668105?v=glance&s=books

2nd edition: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232525X/qid=1049989427/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-6175350-8668105

Thanks for the help!

mmilano

Originally posted by OhLordy
Professional PHP4 by Wrox

absolutely agree here 100% .. the big red wrox books are great.. especially this one!

glambert

Originally posted by mmilano
absolutely agree here 100% .. the big red wrox books are great.. especially this one!

And does it covers pretty much all I described above? I was also checking that book, but I want to be sure it's the kind of the book that fits what I'm searching for now (because I will surely buy more eventually)

Thanks

B-truE

There is another Wrox PHP book that was just published in March of 2003, I'd like to read some comments on it.

Here's a link to a post about it on this site:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10237881