Archive for August 6th, 2006

Davey Shafik’s Blog: Mini-Review: Pro PHP-GTK

PHP Developer - August 6th, 2006

Davey Shafik has posted his own mini-review of the popular APress book from Scott Mattocks, Pro PHP-GTK.

Several weeks ago I recieved a copy of Pro PHP GTK by Scott Mattocks in the mail. The first surprise, upon opening the package, is that the book is a hardback - a first for me (at least, for a tech book). I assume this is the norm for all APress books these days, which is very cool as the cover price didn’t seem to be inflated because of it.

He takes you through a quick tour of the book, mentioning the introductory chapters, a ‘ride’ through the world of PHP-GTK2 (including widgets), and an example application.

Davey notes that he wouldn’t call it a ‘fast reader’, but the book is still a great resource and he would highly recommend it. It reminded him of how flexible PHP really is, even at creating client-side graphical interfaces.

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PHP-Tools Blog: Exploring PHP to be published soon

PHP Developer - August 6th, 2006

Stephan Schmidt has posted a new note today about the upcoming publication of “Exploring PHP”, a book he’s been working on.

I have been working on this together with Frank, Christian, Sandro and Kore and the book features five articles on advanced PHP topics. All articles in the book have been written in German.

He specifically mentions a part he contributed - a look at event-driven development (for component applications). The book also talks about using various PEAR packages and SimpleTest. The planned release date is August 17th from Entwickler Press (published in German).

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