PHP: The Good Parts is a book can take you into the palace of PHP, in which you will see all the essence features of PHP, including the type system, object-oriented mechanism, database interaction, safety assurance, built-in function library, etc.

In AppNee's opinion, there is no so-called the best programming (or even human) language, only the most suitable for you, your favorite or the one you can do best. Remember: any language is interlinked, the most important thing is to learn and master one of them, and then slowly find the best one for you. For readers have no programming experience, we recommend you to start with the Head First series, in particular, for software developing beginners, you'd better choose Head First Programming first.

PHP has become one of the world's most popular web programming languages from a tool used for producing personal web page. It ensures the operation of so many busiest websites on the Internet. This also brings the problems to be focused on, that's performance, maintainability, testability, reliability and the most important thing - security.

Regular expression is troublesome but extremely powerful and useful, this is indisputable fact. Practical use after learning will help you improve the working efficiency of your applications and bring you the absolute sense of accomplishment. As long as carefully read some tutorials and get certain reference in the practical application, mastering regular expression is not a problem.

PHP Cookbook can save you the valuable web development time. With these solutions regarding the actual problems at hand, from common problems from beginners to technical problems in advanced PHP web programming will be readily solved.