A Gentle Introduction to symfony

Learn the PHP Symfony framework from the beginning. Perfect for PHP developers who need to learn and/or maintain Symfony code.

This guide uses Symfony to solve key problems, providing source code examples. It explains the approach and reviews the frameworks, providing reliable information.

This book introduces you to the leading framework for PHP developers, showing you how to wield its many features to develop web applications faster and more efficiently, even if you only know a bit of PHP.

Title A Gentle Introduction to symfony
Author(s) Fabien Potencier, François Zaninotto
Publisher: Sensio SA (May 5, 2010)
Paperback 540 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2918390305
ISBN-13: 978-2918390305
Download: http://symfony.com/legacy/doc/gentle-introduction/1_4/en

PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner

This book is an introduction into web development using PHP. PHP is a dynamic scripting language used in many places such as Wordpress or joomla, eCommerce platforms, social networking/media websites and more.

PHP can be used to develop web pages, or even web apps. PHP is widely used with other languages such as HTML, CSS, Ajax and XML, so the learning doesn't stop here!

This book caters for the absolute beginners to the intermediate and advanced PHP developers. It takes you through from what is a variable to a nice snippet the author found on backing up a databases or their individual individual tables and emailing them out.

It consists of a series of tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.

Title PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner
Author(s) Vikram Vaswani
Publisher: Zend Developer Zone (2014)
Paperback N/A
eBook HTML
Language: English
ISBN-10: N/A
ISBN-13: N/A
Download: http://devzone.zend.com/6/php-101-php-for-the-absolute-beginner/

PHP Programming - A Comprehensive Guide to Programming in PHP

 You will learn PHP programming language by understanding how its primary functions work, how it interacts with HTML, and how its nature of being a server-side scripting language differs from a client-side language, such as JavaScript.

    Title PHP Programming - A Comprehensive Guide to Programming in PHP
    Author(s) Penn Wu
    Publisher: The Global Text Project (2014)
    Paperback N/A
    eBook PDF (245 pages, 1.6 MB)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: N/A
    ISBN-13: N/A
    Download: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PHP_Programming

Practical PHP: The Definitive Guide to Programming PHP

You're about to learn to use the most powerful web development language that can be found, and, what's more, you will do so with the minimum of fuss.

This book was written with the goal of making the task of learning PHP something fun that you don't have to worry about. As such, you'll find lots of information for newcomers, even those who haven't programmed much before.

On the other end of the scale, this book is packed with lots of information on advanced functionality in PHP – if you're a veteran user looking to take your PHP skills above and beyond where they are right now, you'll find there is lots to be had here.

The goal for this book has been to produce something you can read in whatever order you want. This book assumes no PHP programming skill at all: you'll be taught from scratch in that respect. However, once you have the basics down, you're encouraged to flick through the table of contents, find something that interests you most, and start reading from there.

Topics covered include: variables and functions, working with files, databases and normalisation, images, parsing XML, cookies, networking, security, performance and more – it's no wonder Practical PHP has long been regarded as the definitive reference for PHP programmers.

This edition was updated for PHP 5.2.

Title Practical PHP: The Definitive Guide to Programming PHP
Author(s) Paul Hudson
Publisher: Paul Hudson, 1 edition (October 28, 2013); Tuxradar.com (2014, updated continuously)
eBook Kindle and HTML
Language: English
ISBN-10/ASIN: B00G9JV2KI
ISBN-13: N/A
Download: http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp

O'Reilly® High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Sites

High Performance Drupal is an essential, comprehensive guide to designing Drupal’s supporting infrastructure and scalability, as well as a handbook for improving Drupal website performance. Drupal beginners will quickly learn a set of best practices in how to deploy a growable site which will withstand traffic surges. Intermediate and expert users will find this book to be the ultimate go-to reference source during initial planning for a site deployment or when implementing specific technologies such as Varnish, memcache, or Solr.

The book will focus on Drupal versions 7 and 8, with Drupal 8 planning to be released in late 2013.

Title High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Sites
Author(s) Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole
Publisher: O'Reilly Media (October 22, 2013)
Paperback 400 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 144939261X
ISBN-13: 978-1449392611
eBook: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000845/index.html

PHP: The Right Way

This book is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web.

This edition was updated for PHP 5.2.

    Title PHP: The Right Way

    Author(s) Josh Lockhart

    Publisher: PhpTheRightWay.com

    Language: English

    eBook: http://www.phptherightway.com/