speaking of php programming...

[id10t]

Any recommendations on a book or books to be used as a general reference text book for teaching a PHP+SQL class?

I may be teaching such a beast in the near future, and while I have plenty of good online resources the Powers That Be decree that a printed text must be listed ... so I'd like something that would be a good reference to have and keep, not cost the student an arm and a leg.

Also, recommendations for windows and mac text editors w/ syntax highlighting, etc. - I do all my development in either kate or joe (hey, at least its not vi!) ...

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by id10t

Any recommendations on a book or books to be used as a general reference text book for teaching a PHP+SQL class?

I may be teaching such a beast in the near future, and while I have plenty of good online resources the Powers That Be decree that a printed text must be listed ... so I'd like something that would be a good reference to have and keep, not cost the student an arm and a leg.

Also, recommendations for windows and mac text editors w/ syntax highlighting, etc. - I do all my development in either kate or joe (hey, at least its not vi!) ...

For the Mac text editor I use BBedit, free version is TextWrangler, both from BareBones.

[jeffgrant]

TextMate is pretty well the editor of choice for just about all programming languages for my devs (we all work on OSX). While we don't do PHP, we do front-end (html, css, etc), Ruby on Rails, Java, shell, Python, etc.

Personally, I use UltraEdit when I need a text editor, especially now that it's got native versions for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

Mac Text Editor | UltraEdit for Mac

[rattlsnak]

Tryit Editor v1.4

[legion]