Free PHP Books
Download free PHP eBooks in pdf format or read online. Books included in this category cover topics related to PHP such as Laravel, PHP Best Practices, symfony, PHP Testing, PHP Security, PHPUnit, PHP Functions, PEAR and more.
PHP Notes for Professionals
The PHP Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. …
Laravel 5 Official Documentation
Laravel 5 Official Documentation is a free ebook version of the Laravel 5.x Official Documentation and it is synced daily. …
PHP Succinctly
In PHP Succinctly , author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza guides newcomers through PHP’s basics, which includes deployment, programming themes such as variables, decision making, arrays, functions, and databases, and the creation of a functional webpage that will connect to a database. By the end, you’ll be ready to join the vast community of PHP users around the world. …
PHP: The Right Way
“PHP: The Right Way”, by Josh Lockhart, is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web. …
PHP Best Practices
“PHP Best Practices: A short, practical guide for common and confusing PHP tasks” is an attempt to compile a set of basic instructions for what can be considered best practices for common and confusing issues and tasks in PHP. If a low-level task has multiple and confusing approaches in PHP, it belongs here. …
More with symfony 1.3 & 1.4
“More with symfony 1.3 & 1.4: Learn from symfony experts” is free to read online. It is part of the official symfony documentation. This book is available in five languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese). …
A Gentle Introduction to symfony 1.4
“A Gentle Introduction to symfony 1.4” is free to read online. This book introduces you to symfony, 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. …
Practical PHP Testing
Download this free PHP eBook, “Practical PHP Testing” by Giogio Sironi. This practical testing book is aimed to php developers. …
Practical symfony
The “Practical symfony” book shows you all it takes to build up a complete and effective application from scratch. Definitely the best way to learn symfony. …
The symfony Reference Guide
Download “The symfony Reference Guide” for free in pdf format or read it online. The Symfony Reference Guide is a book where you can easily find answers to your questions at your fingertips. …
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Practical PHP: The Definitive Guide to Programming PHP 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.
The PHP Programming Language (CodeAhoy) This book is a beginner’s guide for writing PHP programs from scratch and learning practical programming skills to use with any language, a treasure trove of knowledge and a great platform to enhance your PHP skills.
PHP Pandas: The PHP Programming Language for Everyone This book aims to teach everyone how to be a web developer. You don’t need any existing web development experience — concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time. Now includes updates for PHP 7!
PHP Essentials (Neil Smyth) The purpose of this book is bring the power and ease of use of PHP to anyone with a desire to learn PHP, and in doing so, join the tens of thousands of web developers who have already discovered the flexibility and productivity that comes with using PHP.
PHP Power Programming (Andi Gutmans, Stig Bakken, et al) This book shows you how to make the most of PHP’s industrial-strength enhancements in any project — no matter how large or complex. Its unique insights and realistic examples illuminate PHP’s new object model, powerful design patterns, improved XML Web services support, and much more.
Essential PHP (Krzysztof Kowalczyk) This book provides clear and concise explanation of topics for programmers both starting to learn the PHP programming as well as those diving in more complex topics. Examples are linked to online playground that allows you to play with them.
Survive The Deep End: PHP Security (Padraic Brady) This book will serve as your complete guide for taking defensive and proactive security measures within your PHP applications. Beginners in secure programming will find a lot of material on secure PHP development, the basics of encryption, secure protocols, etc.
Upgrading to PHP 7 (Davey Shafik) A short guide to the major changes in this new release, including a revamped engine (Zend Engine 3), a bunch of new features, and lots of language cleanup. You’ll learn about basic language changes, deprecated features, Unicode enhancements, etc.
PHP: The Right Way (Phil Sturgeon/Josh Lockhart) This book aims to introduce new PHP developers to some topics which they may not discover until it is too late, and aims to give seasoned pros some fresh ideas on those topics they’ve been doing for years without ever reconsidering.
PHP Notes for Professionals This book is for intermediate level developers who want to become a master of PHP. Basic knowledge of PHP is required across areas such as basic syntax, types, variables, constants, expressions, operators, control structures, and functions.
Functional PHP: The Art of Functional Composition (Luis Atencio) A practical approach to functional programming and show how it compares to other programming paradigms (procedural/OO), with examples that showcase functional concepts/techniques, plus using PHP in a ways you’ve probably never though it could.
PHP Programming (Penn Wu) 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.
PHP Programming (Wikibooks) This book teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications with the latest features in PHP. It covers all from Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Strategies to enhance your PHP skills.
PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner (Vikrami Vaswani) This book caters for the absolute beginners to the intermediate and advanced PHP developers, 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.
PHP Succinctly (Jose Roberto Olivas Mendoza) This book guides newcomers through PHP’s basics, which includes deployment, programming themes such as variables, decision making, arrays, functions, and databases, and the creation of a functional webpage that will connect to a database.
O’Reilly® PHP Cookbook (David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg) This book is absolutely packed with quick solutions to common obstacles or ideas in PHP. It has a wealth of solutions for problems that you’ll face regularly.
The Missing Link: An Introduction to Web Programming This book is a full stack introduction to web programming: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, PHP, and MySQL — everything you need to get started as a stack developer.
A Gentle Introduction to symfony: Build Pro Websites Faster This book introduces you to the leading framework symfony 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.
Code Bright — Web Development with the Laravel Framework This book teaches Web application development for the Laravel framework version 4 for beginners. It contain a complete learning experience for all of the framework’s features.
Drupal 7 Views Cookbook (J. Ayen Green) With over 200 pages of content at your fingertips, this free book is everything you need to learn how to make the most out of Views in Drupal 7 or 8.
O’Reilly® High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Sites This book is an essential, comprehensive guide to designing Drupal’s supporting infrastructure and scalability, as well as a handbook for improving Drupal website performance.
The Definitive Guide to symfony (Fabien Potencier, et al) You will learn about the Model-View-Controller architecture and the crucial role it plays in making frameworks like symfony possible.
Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications This book shares his knowledge about the fundamentals of writing testable PHP code with you and turn writing tests for your code into a regular part of your workflow instead of something you do at the last minute.
RESTful PHP Web Services (Samisa Abeysinghe) The book explains the basic concepts associated with the REST architectural style, but the emphasis is on creating PHP code for consuming and creating RESTful services in PHP.
PHP Best Practices: A Guide for Common and Confusing PHP Tasks This book is an attempt to compile a set of basic instructions for what can be considered best practices for common and confusing issues and tasks in PHP.
The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition A compilation of the best solutions provided to common PHP questions. It will save you time, and eliminate the frustration of completing PHP tasks, with a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions
Doctrine ORM for PHP (Jonathan H. Wage, Konsta Vesterinen) This book is the ultimate users manual for you whether you are a beginner or an advanced user. of Doctrine ORM.
The Oracle PHP Cookbook (John Alphonse, Justin Kestelyn) This book is designed to bridge the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available.
The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual (Christopher Jones, et al) This book is designed to bridge the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available. It shows how to use the PHP scripting language with the Oracle database, from installation to using them efficiently.
The Web Book: Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL This book teaches you how to create web sites and applications with HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL.
Super Awesome Advanced CakePHP Tips ©2009 (Matt Curry) This book will speak to an audience of developers already familiar with PHP but who may not be PHP experts. It is tailored for those new to CakePHP and who want a thorough tutorial.
Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End (P�draic Brady) This book covers key features, including model-view-controller implementation, routing, input validation, internationalization, and caching, and shows you how to use them in a practical context.
PHP Reference: Beginner to Intermediate PHP5 (Mario Lurig) This book is a collection of over 250 PHP functions with clear explanations in language anyone can understand, followed with as many examples as it takes to understand what the function does and how it works..
The PEAR Installer Manifesto: How to Revolutionize Your PHP Apps The book is not just for PHP developers who want to understand how the PEAR Installer works, and what it can do for them, but more generally for PHP developers seeking a better way to deploy their applications and manage updates.
Building Online Communities with phpBB 2 (Jeremy Rogers, et al) This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease, and develop your own Internet community.
AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications (C. Darie) Assuming a basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL, this book will help you understand how the heart of AJAX beats and how the constituent technologies work together.
O’Reilly® PHPUnit Pocket Guide (Sebastian Bergmann) This quick-reference book puts all the answers are right at your fingertips. It’s an invaluable companion for anyone interested in testing the PHP code they write for web applications.
Intrusion Detection Systems with Snort, Apache, MySQL, PHP, ACID This book provides information about how to use free Open Source tools to build and manage an Intrusion Detection System.
O’Reilly® The Web Programming CD Bookshelf Version 1.0 A collection of excellent web programming books, including several PHP programming books.
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