FW: O'Reilly Publishes Concise Guide to PHP

Brandon Gohsman brandon at squareonedesign.com
Thu Feb 3 20:25:04 CST 2000


New book!

I was just about to buy a book on PHP when this dropped in my mailbox (I'm
interested in any alternative to ASP). So, it is on it's way as well.

Brandon

-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo at oreilly.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:40 PM
To: brandon at squareonedesign.com
Subject: O'Reilly Publishes Concise Guide to PHP


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O'Reilly Publishes Concise Guide to PHP


Sebastopol, CA-An open source, cross-platform alternative to
Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology, PHP is a freely
available script language and interpreter now running on over 700,000
web sites. PHP is proving to be a powerful tool for building dynamic,
database-driven websites.

As with ASP, PHP (the initials refer to the first version of the
program "Personal Home Page Tools") script is embedded within a Web
page along with its HTML. Before the page is sent to a user that has
requested it, the Web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the
operations called for in the PHP script. This allows scripts to be
built into HTML code that can access back-end databases, enabling
on-the-fly creation of pages.

O'Reilly & Associates has just published a handy reference to PHP-"The
PHP Pocket Reference." Written by Rasmus Lerdorf (who started the PHP
Project back in 1995 and has been actively involved in PHP development
ever since), this small book acts both as a perfect tutorial for
learning the basics of developing Web applications with PHP and as a
reference to the vast array of functions provided by PHP. "The PHP
language itself borrows concepts from other common languages, such as C
and Perl. If you have some experience with one of these languages, you
should feel right at home with PHP," says Lerdorf.


A sample section from the book is available free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phppr/chapter/php_pkt.html

For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phppr/

For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565927699.jpg


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PHP Pocket Reference
By Rasmus Lerdorf
1st Edition January 2000
1-56592-769-9, 120 pages, $9.95
order at oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com




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