[KLUG Programming] Really nice PHP articles

[Adam Williams]

> Thanks for the tip, Adam.
> I was reading through a bunch of PHP books this past week and found "PHP
> and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition" very useful.

My beef with most of those books isn't that they aren't useful in
leanring the syntax of the language, but they typically treach and
example a terrible adhoc coding design and style.  That works for
smallish, short life-span, small-team/single-developer projects (or it
gives the temporary illusion of working - witness the number of Open
Source releases where version 2,3,4,etc... are "complete rewrites").

For languages like C++ and Java you get a good amount of discussion
about design type issues.  All the books designate at least a token
chapter to concepts like model-view, factory, etc...  But with Perl,
PHP, etc... this rarely comes up.  The articles I found are really the
only in-depth PHP related documents I've seen for that topic.

> >I just stumbled across a collection of REALLY GOOD PHP articles.  The
> >first I've seen of this kind actually.
> >The introduce in an understandable fashion how to do *real* programming
> >in PHP;  wish I had had these years ago.
> >http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/archive/1/