It’s about a month ago that I came to know that Larry Ullman, a web programmer and writer of wonderful tutorials/books, was about to write a new book on the Yii framework, my favourite PHP framework at all.
While there’s no doubt I will be one of the firsts to buy it, I suggest to everyone interested in (and/or actually involved with) programming with PHP and using a framework to make your webapps more stable, simple to keep updated (especially if you work with a team) and stable, to read Larry’s incredibly clear and well written “Learning Yii framework” series on his blog. Should you like it, you may consider to buy his next to be published book.
The Yii framework was created by Qiang Xue, a developer previously involved in the Prado framework. _«Yii is a free, open-source Web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean, DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product.»_ (source: yiiframework.com/about/).
Other books on PHP from Larry Ullman:
- PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Visual QuickPro Guides)
- PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide
- Effortless E-commerce with PHP and MySQL (Voices That Matter)
