Reddit Books

The most-mentioned books on r/PHP

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top. 

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users. 

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit. 

Table of Contents

 

The most-mentioned books on r/PHP

PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice50 users
Clean Code31 users
Design Patterns26 users
PHP and MySQL Web Development24 users
Working Effectively with Legacy Code22 users
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture21 users
Head First Design Patterns20 users
Code Complete14 users
Refactoring13 users
PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice13 users
Extending and Embedding PHP12 users
Head First PHP and MySQL11 users
Modern PHP11 users
Domain-Driven Design10 users
Test Driven Development10 users
The Pragmatic Programmer7 users
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests7 users
Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and...6 users
Essential PHP Security6 users
PHP Cookbook6 users
Mastering Regular Expressions5 users
Advanced PHP programming5 users
PHP Master5 users
PHP Object-Oriented Solutions5 users
Beginning PHP and MySQL5 users
The Mythical Man-Month4 users
PHP for the Web4 users
High Performance MySQL4 users
Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript4 users
JavaScript4 users
PHP for Absolute Beginners4 users
Principles Of Package Design4 users
Object-Oriented PHP4 users
Murach's PHP and MySQL4 users
Clean Architecture3 users
Refactoring3 users
The Clean Coder3 users
PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites3 users
PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming3 users
Implementing Domain-Driven Design3 users
The Object-Oriented Thought Process3 users
Beginning PHP 6, Apache, MySQL 6 Web Development3 users
Beginning PHP 5.33 users
Learning PHP 53 users
Learning PHP and MySQL3 users
PHP|Architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns3 users
PHP and MySQL3 users
PHP solutions3 users
High Performance MySQL3 users
Programming PHP3 users
Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS and HTML53 users
Pro PHP3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

 

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Junaid Khan

Junaid Khan is the founder of Moocable - the platform to help learner find their next MOOC, and study partners. A passionate learner, he struggled with self-learning.