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Show HN: I wrote a short book on web applications with PHP for beginners

4 pointsby krasotkinabout 3 years ago

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krasotkinabout 3 years ago
A pdf can be downloaded here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bryanhoffman.github.io&#x2F;PHP-For-The-Web--Enough-to-be-Dangerous-by-Bryan-Hoffman.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bryanhoffman.github.io&#x2F;PHP-For-The-Web--Enough-to-be...</a><p>My Process and Tools: I started by writing in plain text with vim. I found [bookdown](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bookdown.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bookdown.org&#x2F;</a>) and I had some prior experience with R so I decided to try it out. Using bookdown, it turned out I didn&#x27;t have to use any R at all. I used [Rstudio&#x27;s bookdown-demo repo](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rstudio&#x2F;bookdown-demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rstudio&#x2F;bookdown-demo</a>) to get started right away. I converted my txt into Rmd files in Rstudio and used the console to build html and pdf files of the book. The html files use a git-book format. LaTeX is necessary for the pdf generation, and can be used in the .Rmd files but I didn&#x27;t need this ability for this text.