# Best Book for Flash & PHP
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352
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**Created:** [July 7, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352 "2008-07-07T23:15:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@telekinesis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/telekinesis)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/1 "2008-07-07T23:15:36Z")
What is the best book for programming PHP and Flash together? Also what is the best PHP book (not specifically including Flash)?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@telekinesis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/telekinesis)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/2 "2008-07-08T19:12:55Z")
Bump.
Please?
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### Author:  [@tpspoons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tpspoons)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/3 "2008-07-08T21:26:02Z")
Seconded…
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### Author:  [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/4 "2008-07-09T00:32:27Z")
Best Flash book: Never read a Flash book so I can’t say.
Best PHP book: [kirupa and [url=http://www.php.net/]PHP](http://www.kirupa.com/web/index.htm).
I don’t trust books talking about PHP, mainly because they always stink.
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/5 "2008-07-09T00:55:22Z")
Haven’t read it, but I’ve heard good things about this one;
> **[Foundation PHP 5 for Flash: David Powers: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-PHP-5-Flash/dp/1590594665/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215564893&sr=8-2)**
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> Our original Foundation PHP for Flash title was rightly regarded as a must-have when it came to wanting to learn just how to make your Flash sites make use of backend technologies, that was published ...
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### Author:  [@telekinesis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/telekinesis)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/6 "2008-07-09T04:29:25Z")
I’m curious to how well that book works with using Actionscript 3. Hopefully it is not too hard to convert over. Book is from 2005.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Diablo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dr_Diablo)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/7 "2008-07-09T05:10:49Z")
[color=slategray]I would recommend The Definitive Guide series for both Flash and PHP.
> **[Amazon.com: The Definitive Guide\[/color\]: Books](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Definitive+Guide%5B/color%5D)**
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### Author:  [@Noahdecoco](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Noahdecoco)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/8 "2008-07-09T16:50:23Z")
I’ve started reading Essential ActionScrip 3.0 by Colin Moock. I’m right at the beggining though so I can’t say how good it it. Only that so far, all the coding is done in notepad and we haven’t even opened flash yet. I wonder if this is the correct book that I want to read. I’m looking for a good book about flash animation through codes, making websites, php, etc… any suggestions people?
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-book-for-flash-php/265352/9 "2008-07-09T16:57:12Z")
Essential actionscript 3 is wicked. Stay focused.