Book suggestions for advanced PHP

[lanm]

I've got Dreamweaver's MX 2004 PHP book, along with another Apress book for PHP beginning programming.

I'd like to get more advanced, and use better controls/objects like datagrids, dropdownlists, listboxes, and such like ASP.NET.

Any suggestions are welcomed!

Thanks!

 

[sleipnir214]

datagrids"? That string doesn't appear anywhere in the PHP online manual. Neither does "dropdownlist". "Listbox" does appear in a user-supplied comment on the page for mysql_fetch_row().

PHP isn't organized around the concept of controls and objects. Although it does support object-oriented code, little of its builtin functionality is itself OO.


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[lanm]

Datagrids and dropdownlists are tools/controls in ASP.NET.
Thanks for the reply!

 

[sleipnir214]

I guessed they were from ASP. But it would be incorrect to assume that anyone in this forum would necessarily know what they do.

By the way....what do they do?

If they're some kind of complex HTML constructs, there will be no equivalent functionality built into PHP. There may be user-defined PHP classes which do this, but any information on them would not be a part of any standard text on PHP, but rather would be part of documentation on the class itself.


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