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In today’s web development scenario, it is very necessary for a web developer to know how to code in PHP. PHP has become a major language in web development industry in last few years. From WordPress to FaceBook everything is coded in PHP language.
Recently we came to a book named PHP for Absolute Beginners which is a must read for beginners. Today we are going to review the book and guess what? We have 2 free copies of book to give you free of cost. I wish that it would have been there when I was learning PHP. Anyways After buying the book, I read it and the book was something more than awesome.
About the Author
The book is written by Jason Lengstorf who is a self taught PHP developer. He is an experienced voice in PHP and web development. If you are a regular reader of some famous blogs like Smashing Magazine and CSS-Tricks then you might came to tutorials written by him. He is also co-author of the famous CSS-Tricks series “Creating a web app from scratch”. You can read his extensive interview by me here.
Inside the Book
Jason starts the book with how to install PHP on your computer and then leads you throughout the way to building up your own blog system with user comments. Rather than wasting the first chapter on the history of programming and PHP, how it came and other theoretical stuff, he tells the readers how to install xampp on your local computer for better development. I have read about 5-6 books on PHP and it was my habit to skip the first chapter of book, first time I read the starting chapter of book.
Why we liked the book?
The book is an example of a phrase, less theory, more coding. Jason teaches PHP with a lot of sample tutorials and examples. You will not read chapters and chapters of theory but you will learn best practices to do in the coding, and many pro tips which should be kept in mind when coding in PHP.
The Giveaway
We have got two copies of PHP for absolute beginners for the giveaway. We are very thankful to Jason Lengstorf and the publishers of book APRESS Publishers for supporting this giveaway.
How to enter in the giveaway?
Pretty simple, you have to leave a comment on the post and tell us what you want to see on 1stwebdesigner, or how we can make the website better. We will use random.org to pick the winners. The giveaway is open till 11:59pm GMT+5, February 18th 2010.
Grab the book right now
If you don’t like waiting for the result of giveaway, you can buy the book here through Amazon.com service. What we can assure you that this book is definitely worth your money.
Good Luck!
*Update by Dainis Graveris
Seeing all those amazing suggestions and comments changed my mind about randomized pick! We will choose winners with the most thoughtful, interesting and best answer! I just love to see how you drop down all the weak points of 1stwebdesigner site! I love you for that, and I am definitely thinking about new design, which will be very well researched and carefully put together to fix all problems, usability bugs we have here!
Give us more feedback! Completely inspired!
Update
The Giveaway is closed now.
Winners are Terri Lockerridge and Mark Anderson.
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions.
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Saad, What a surprise, I won something! Thanks very much for the e-book! I’ll be reading away over the next little while. I have been wanting this book for a while.
Thanks again!
Mark
Congrats Mark. There are a lot of books coming soon. Stay tuned with us. Best of luck for the future.:)
I wish i could get my hand on this book =[
You got late boy. What can we do:)
Book is useful and also fantastic
Thanks
Forgot to add that as this is a very sweet happening to me.. I will write a blog and put your site out there among those who I have social networking contact with on Multiply.com and Facebook.
Hope it brings more subscribers to your site… not just because I am grateful for the book, but because it is a really worthwhile place to put time into reading the articles.
terri lockerridge
Thanks a lot Terri. Much appreciated. I hope that the book will help you in get started with PHP. Jason is also writing another book, Pro PHP and jQuery. We are sure that we will also have some copies of book to giveaway.
I was so surprised when I received your email that I had been a winner! That is just something which never happens to me at all! I have ordered the ebook and at present I am awaiting the confirmation email so I can access it!
Once again.. thank you for the vote of confidence toward myself in choosing my suggestion as one of the best submitted. I was just honest about my curiosity and by the way.. lol.. what is your answer to my question?
sincerely,
terri lockerridge
Excellent book! Glad to participate :) I think it would be a great idea to focus on jquery/css tutorials for beginners in the future
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Thanks, read more in-depth about javascript
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Nice one, at the moment i try to learn more about PHP, this book is a must have for me to learn more.
Thanks for this giveaway
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I’d love to see more in-depth tutorials for beginners, preferably with clear coding examples.
And I’d love to get the book :).
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From the beginning itself i love 1stwebdesigner, u done a good job, keep up the good job,…
And random.org, pick my number :P
i want that book :(
I would say more about CSS3 & jQuery
not so good book, to many error and some explanation error, the more important to note is no update been released since published.
Book Review + Giveaway Of PHP For Absolute Beginners (2 copies)…
PHP has become a major language in web development industry in last few years and it’s easy to fall back with technology if you don’t keep up….
Great Site. would love more articles on beginning PHP CMS site design and customization.
I should clarify – despite the “flashing banner” etc, I do find the site trustworthy and very helpful. I was just pointing out the feel that it can convey.
My opinions on the site:
I like the colours and the feel of the site, though I must say, i personally find sites with advertisements in the header etc to have a somewhat “distrustful” feel to them. I don’t feel like I can trust the site, cause it feels like they are out to make $$. Particularly if there are banner adds like the one I just saw on here (flashing huge text saying “bargain, only $1.40″ etc etc. Screams SCAM.
Anyway, enough of that rant. I can see what you are trying to do with the footer, though I think there is a little too much info on there myself. I find it a little distracting. The different sized links all through that paragraph of tags on the left of the footer seems a bit disorganized to me (and the right column too) – as in it looks disorganized. I don’t read any of it cause it seems a bit too full on.
Otherwise, I really like the site, and I really like your free giveaway too. I hope my comments have been of assistance to you.
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How about short screencasts on coding or even designing tips (either jQuery, Photoshop or WordPress) that would be great.
learning wordpress right now, would love to see more on that.
I’ve been waiting to see very creative ‘window displays’ on your site.
BTW, your site have been a great source of inspiration to designers.
thanks
More design + SEO tips together…like your wordpress post!
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Would love a copy. As far as how to make 1stwebdesigner better? I think you guys are doing just fine as is! but if I had to say something, I would say more wordpress and jquery.
I’d like to learn more about php, just due to the fact that’s one of the main languages I didn’t learn in school and would like more information on it.
Thanks!
I would say some Pod Casts would be interesting to listen to, I quiet like that format…but maybe it’s just me !
I would like to see more Wordpress performance enhancement tricks / tips.
Thanks
I’m an aspiring web designer and have been coding my sites from hand for three years. While I know a smidge of PHP ( the include function is a must ) I feel I’m at a point of understanding that I can take the next step. Many other guides / books seem to begin with an assumption that the reader is a ‘coder’ by nature, or further along than they actually are.
I would LOVE to find a resource that can show me the cause and effect and real, practical uses of beginner PHP in modern day web environment.
just got here, so checking out your articles now
I would go with more wordpress articles, as I love wordpress and want to know more about it. Nice giveaway.
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Hi,
thanks for this giveaway action, well what I should like is a bit more tutorials for CMS/blog systems like, Wordpress, Textpattern.
Thanks 1stewebdesigner
As js platforms as jquery, mootools etc. are gettin more popular i would love to read more about them as well as more illustrating tutorials for web design. cheers
You want my opinion? Ok. I don’t like the footer, it’s too long and disorganized (just displaying “Tags” and “Authors” other space is empty). To display authors you could use buttons like in sidebar. Second thing that I personally don’t like is comluv plugin use, I think it adds more confusion to comments. Search field you could add on top navigation or on sidebar. Awesome giveaway, hope you’ll find my opinion useful and I win. Good luck!
I am a real beginner for wordpress and PHP. I could’ve used a theme and get done with my site, but the annoying thing is that that’s nothing that I wanted.
So, if there is an clear tut for customizing wordpress by coding or creating my own theme, I will be much appreciated.
Tnks
Would love to see more tutorials on the logo design process – beginning to end incl the brainstorm & thought process.
It would be nice to read any of the PHP framework from the 1stwebdesigner
thanks
Sunil
Hi there I would like to see more about creating a custom wordpress themes. I know there are many tuts about how to create templates, but no one covers the background of creating templates. Every tut is specific and does not offer more user customization…
I really enjoy the site already, but i`d love to get inside-infos on Drupal and Concrete5 CMS maybe…
But anyways thanks for the collected tuts and stuff! a very useful and nice resource….
Cheers SNAPONE
Hi!
I would like some articles about Magento if possible. Thanks
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That’s already in my to-do list. Most probably I will write magento articles for a whole week. E-commerce week.
I would like a lot of jquery and wordpress tuts…
nice work, go on like this
Your site rocks…
I would like more jQuery tutorials…
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Hi there,
Please could I get one, I am a real beginner and I am sure it can help me :) truly…
I would love to participate in your giveaway.
I think you should publish more in-depth tutorials.
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