How to become an expert in PHP

                    PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server-side scripting  language used to make a dynamic web pages that interacts with databases. It is usually used to make a web based software applications. Initially it was called as "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter", but now it is called as Hypertext Preprocessor. It November 1997 Rasmus Lerdorf built and released PHP. You can develop static websites with HTML and CSS or with the help of Java Script you can make some dynamic pages. But if you want to develop more complex, more dynamic or web based software applications PHP is the best choice. PHP uses MySQL to communicate with databases. PHP and MySQL both are the most used open source software within an enterprise. As of February 2014 PHP is the most used server side scripting language in the world with more than 82% of all websites. Many popular enterprises used PHP in their professional sites such as WordPress, SilverStripe, Joomla, Drupal, Moodle and front end of Facebook and Digg. PHP is easy to learn and use but with PHP you can develop more complicated websites.

                  As of January 2013, PHP was installed on more than 240 million websites and 2.1 million web servers. So learning PHP is more important to every bloggers and web developers. But being an expert in PHP is more important to every professional web developers. Today we bring you a best books to become an expert in PHP. This page lists best books from beginning to advanced level to become an PHP expert.

1. Head First PHP & MySQL

                   This is the best book for beginners to learn PHP and MySQL in Head First style. This book is easy to follow because it explains everything you need to know in PHP and MySQL with simple real world examples. This book covers from beginning to advanced topics such as form validation, session IDs, cookies, database queries, file I/O operations, content management and many more. If you know the basics of HTML and CSS but new to dynamic website development then this is the great book to get start to build more dynamic and database-driven applications.

2. Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5

                 This is also one of the best for beginners to learn PHP. If you know the basics of HTML then this book teaches you how to make more interactive websites with PHP and MySQL. The author also teaches how to use JavaScript to make more rich websites and web applications. This book helps you to understand the basics of PHP programming, become a master in PHP and MySQL, learn JavaScript, using libraries and packages, upload and manipulate images files and validate them and many more things you can learn with this book. 

3. PHP and MySQL Web Development

           Tim Luoma an authof RnTLuom.com says about this book “The true PHP/MySQL bible, PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, made me realize that programming and databases are now available to the commoners. Again, I know 1/10000th of what there is to know, and already I’m enthralled.”  This is the best to learn from beginning the PHP and MySQL for enterprise web development and database-driven application development.

4. Advanced PHP Programming (Developer's Library)

         After learning the basics and some advanced topics then this is the best books to learning the advanced concepts in PHP programming. This book shows you how to develop more complicated enterprise web applications and database-driven applications. This book covers all advanced concepts associated with PHP development. This is most recommended PHP development book to learn all advanced concepts, this book is not for beginners.

5. PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide

         If you know how to develop small web based application then this book takes you to the next level (Expert level). This is highly recommended  book for Object Oriented Programming in PHP. The author of this book explains all advanced concepts in PHP very well. This book is not for beginners and also not for documentation readers, but it covers many advanced concepts in a great way. This book allows the reader can freely download the codes that are in the book with his website at LarryUllman and access a user forum and get direct advice from the author. 

             If you completed all the concepts from basics to advanced then follow PHP official documentation to know everything associated PHP development.

Also Read: How to become an expert in Android app development, iOS app development

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