Easy Laravel 5 is my most popular self-published book to date. It has undergone hundreds of revisions since the first release in early 2015.
Co-authored with Laravel News founder Eric Barnes, Easy E-Commerce using Laravel and Stripe was without a doubt the most fun I’ve had writing a book. It explains how to integrate Stripe into your Laravel application using Laravel Cashier, doing so by building a series of projects to suit the growing ambitions of landscaping company owner Mr. McDew.
Easy Active Record for Rails Developers was written during my “wilderness years” away from the PHP language . During this time I worked on several fascinating Rails projects, and grew to love Ruby on Rails’ approach to database integration.
Easy PayPal with PHP was written as the result of a few incredibly frustrating experiences integrating PayPal into PHP applications.
I wrote Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework back in 2008 because for its time the Zend Framework was a cutting edge solution.
Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition is the latest edition of my bestselling book to date. It has been translated into multiple languages, including Russian, Chinese, and Italian, among others. Unfortunately due to a contractual issue with the publisher I wasn’t involved with the recently published 5th edition.
Written with co-author Robert Treat, Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL was an adaptation of the first edition of Beginning PHP and MySQL.
Written with co-author Bob Bryla, Beginning PHP and Oracle was an adaptation of the first edition of Beginning PHP and MySQL.
A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0 was my first book, published in early 2001.