[KLUG Programming] Really nice PHP articles

[randall perry]

At 10:44 AM 5/21/2003, you wrote:
>> 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.
Right, too much technical focus and not from a system's POV (point-of-view).
Much like a book that focusses too much on SQL syntax, contraints and triggers but completely lacks tips on database normalization and design.

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