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Zend Developer Zone: Sams Publishing: The Phrasebook Collection

On the Zend Developer Zone today, Cal Evans has posted his look at the Phrasebook series from Sams Publishing covering Javascript, MySQL, Apache, and, of course, PHP.

I get a lot of books to review. Currently the stack is about waist high and UPS hasn’t been here this morning. So in an effort to trim down that stack of books, I’m going to talk about books 4 in one review.

He looks briefly at the contents for each of the books, pointing out specific areas they seemed particularly helpful in. He doesn’t recommend them to someone trying to learn the language right off the mark. These are, as their title implies, just clips and handy snippets of information to help you get to where you’re going. You have to know how to get on the road first, though…

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Sebastian Bergmann’s Blog: PHP Nostalgia

Since it’s always good to know where we’ve come from (to see where we’re headed, right?), Sebastian Bergmann has posted an observeration he’s had upon PHP Magazin’s look back at the world of PHP.

In his editorial for the 5 Year Anniversary Edition of the German PHP Magazin Björn Schotte posted a link to Kristian Köhntopp’s wrapup of the world’s first PHP conference which was held in October 2000 in Cologne, Germany.

The wrapup is of the PHP Congres Cologne that happened back at the beginning October of 2000. Topics disussed were PHPDocumentor, OpenTracker, using MySQL with PHP, web security, and much more. Check out the full posting for all of the details and a bit of a look back in PHP’s history.

You can also check out some of Björn’s comments about the article over on the ThinkPHP Blog.

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php|architect: September 2006 Issue Released

The latest issue of php|architect magaizne has been released today - September 2006.

Highlights in this issue include:

• “Is PHP 5 really slower than PHP 4?” by Andi Gutmans and Dmitry Stogov
• “State of the PEAR” contributed by Aaron Wormus, a walkthrough of the history of PEAR
• “Know Your Stuff” from Philip Olson, looking at the PHP Manual
• “Desperately Seeking Susan” by Tom Gidden, a look at the basics of creating a search engine
• and, of course the Security Corner (Ilia Alshanetsky) is back with part two of the look at configuration in PHP

…and much more.

You can either pick up this issue by itself (about $4.20 USD) or as a part of a shiny, new subscription (about $35.00 USD).

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Object-Oriented Programming Through Design Patterns

If you re looking for an overview of the new object-oriented features of PHP 5 you ve found a good place to start. This article the first of several parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

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