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Sanford Whiteman | 15 May 2012 07:00

[PHP-DEV] Internals books (c) 2007+ ?

Hi All,

Trying to ready myself for some possible work w/the core (after I
resurrect all my never-that-great C, heh), I went looking for a recent
book. (I still like old-school supplements.)

I see Sara's from 2006 on Amazon, but nothing after that under 'PHP
internals'. I'm sure that one's not totally obsolete, but I don't know
if programming styles and patterns have changed even if the bulk of
the code has not. At the risk of fanning some flames I don't know
about... is there a more recent book that's generally liked?

Thanks,

S.

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Lars Strojny | 17 May 2012 03:05
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Re: [PHP-DEV] Internals books (c) 2007+ ?

Hi Sanford,

Sara’s book is still the best we have, nevertheless it shows its age. In Theo Schlossnagles "Scalable
Internet Architectures" also has a chapter on PHP internals. The rest is more or less reading existing
code and playing around. Looks like somebody on Internals should land a book deal :)

With regards,
Lars

Am 15.05.2012 um 07:00 schrieb Sanford Whiteman:

> Hi All,
> 
> Trying to ready myself for some possible work w/the core (after I
> resurrect all my never-that-great C, heh), I went looking for a recent
> book. (I still like old-school supplements.)
> 
> I see Sara's from 2006 on Amazon, but nothing after that under 'PHP
> internals'. I'm sure that one's not totally obsolete, but I don't know
> if programming styles and patterns have changed even if the bulk of
> the code has not. At the risk of fanning some flames I don't know
> about... is there a more recent book that's generally liked?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> S.
> 
> 
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Sanford Whiteman | 17 May 2012 06:24

Re: [PHP-DEV] Internals books (c) 2007+ ?

> Sara’s book is still the best we have, nevertheless it shows its
> age. In Theo Schlossnagles "Scalable Internet Architectures" also
> has a chapter on PHP internals. The rest is more or less reading
> existing code and playing around. Looks like somebody on Internals should land a book deal :)

Thanks, Lars. I first learned about zvals from a chapter in George
Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming, so it seems like there are
deeper dives here and there. I don't know about the book deal if I'm
the only to ask about it in so long, though. :)

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Lars Strojny | 17 May 2012 16:14
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Yep, that might be exactly the problem. The audience for such a book might be less than 100.

Am 17.05.2012 um 06:24 schrieb Sanford Whiteman:

>> Sara’s book is still the best we have, nevertheless it shows its
>> age. In Theo Schlossnagles "Scalable Internet Architectures" also
>> has a chapter on PHP internals. The rest is more or less reading
>> existing code and playing around. Looks like somebody on Internals should land a book deal :)
> 
> Thanks, Lars. I first learned about zvals from a chapter in George
> Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming, so it seems like there are
> deeper dives here and there. I don't know about the book deal if I'm
> the only to ask about it in so long, though. :)
> 
> -- S.
> 
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Adi Mutu | 10 Jun 2012 19:37
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:)
That's too bad....I've read Sara's book, but i'd also buy a new book on this topic.

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Yep, that might be exactly the problem. The audience for such a book might be less than 100.

Am 17.05.2012 um 06:24 schrieb Sanford Whiteman:

>> Sara’s book is still the best we have, nevertheless it shows its
>> age. In Theo Schlossnagles "Scalable Internet Architectures" also
>> has a chapter on PHP internals. The rest is more or less reading
>> existing code and playing around. Looks like somebody on Internals should land a book deal :)
> 
> Thanks, Lars. I first learned about zvals from a chapter in George
> Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming, so it seems like there are
> deeper dives here and there. I don't know about the book deal if I'm
> the only to ask about it in so long, though. :)
> 
> -- S.
> 
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Johannes Schlüter | 17 May 2012 15:35
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On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 03:05 +0200, Lars Strojny wrote:
> Looks like somebody on Internals should land a book deal :)

You don't earn money on books, and if you don't earn money anyways you
can do what is more beneficial for the world: go to edit.php.net and
work on php.net/internals2 ;-)

johannes

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Nikita Popov | 17 May 2012 13:40

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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Sanford Whiteman
<swhitemanlistens-software <at> cypressintegrated.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Trying to ready myself for some possible work w/the core (after I
> resurrect all my never-that-great C, heh), I went looking for a recent
> book. (I still like old-school supplements.)
>
> I see Sara's from 2006 on Amazon, but nothing after that under 'PHP
> internals'. I'm sure that one's not totally obsolete, but I don't know
> if programming styles and patterns have changed even if the bulk of
> the code has not. At the risk of fanning some flames I don't know
> about... is there a more recent book that's generally liked?

You can find a list of various resources regarding PHP internals on
the Wiki: https://wiki.php.net/internals/references

So, no, there does not seem to be a newer book, but maybe the other
stuff can help too :)

Nikita

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Pierre Joye | 17 May 2012 15:58
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hi,

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Sanford Whiteman
<swhitemanlistens-software <at> cypressintegrated.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Trying to ready myself for some possible work w/the core (after I
> resurrect all my never-that-great C, heh), I went looking for a recent
> book. (I still like old-school supplements.)
>
> I see Sara's from 2006 on Amazon, but nothing after that under 'PHP
> internals'. I'm sure that one's not totally obsolete, but I don't know
> if programming styles and patterns have changed even if the bulk of
> the code has not. At the risk of fanning some flames I don't know
> about... is there a more recent book that's generally liked?

And one book one must read and understand is "The C programming
language",by K&R. A must read. Writing php extensions is then only
about reading existing source codes (php-src/ext or pecl) or Sarah's
book for the basics.

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