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PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
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PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition |
Author: Rasmus Lerdorf
Published: 2002-11-01 |
List price: $9.95
Our price: $9.95
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Out of date & needing improvement
O'Reilly must sell a ton of these. Why not get a new author willing to do a good job of updating and improving. We all owe Lerdorf a lot for starting PHP in the first place. Having said that, O'Reilly needs to get an author who can update this and make it a useful reference. PHP is now on version 5.2 and this book is on version 4. It is nearly useless. I try to use this book from time to time, but never seem to find the information I need. Ie: Each function in the reference section needs at least two sentences of explanation, not a half sentence.
PHP needs a couple of good current reference books. Where are they?
 Don't buy this book
What went wrong? I have many of the O'Reilly pocket references and I bought this one on the assumption it would measure up to the others. It doesn't.
Starts out promising but once it reaches page 34 the remainder is unorganize junk with no examples, no hint of what you would use it for.
Shame on O'Reilly for putting this out under their name; they have done their faithful customers who buy on their name's reputation a disservice.
You need a no stars category for this book!
not really worth it
it seems like a handy thing and all but if you have an internet connection open when you code (presumably, since you're doing web development), the php.net documentation is much more helpful... not sure why anybody would use this. not even sure why i really bought this. i guess it looks good with all of the other little o'reilly guides that i own but it really was a waste of 5 dollars...
 Short Review of "PHP Pocket Reference", 2nd Edition
This is a very good small concise reference to PHP 4. Most of the book consists of a summary of the basics of the PHP language plus a function reference to about 1400 PHP functions. If you are in need of a handy reference to PHP 4, this pocket reference would be an excellent companion for "Programming PHP" (which is a fuller reference to PHP and is also published by O'Reilly).
I would not get this pocket reference unless you are already somewhat familiar with PHP and already own "Programming PHP" (or rough equivalent). This book, though well written, is not designed as an introduction to PHP. Oh, and you need to be OK with it not covering PHP 5.
If you want more detail, you could take a look at my somewhat longer review on the Oakland Perl Mongers site.
George Woolley of Oakland.pm and Camelot.pm
What a disappointment
Don't buy this book; you won't use it. The function explanations are rarely more than a sentence, and worst of all they are many times self-referential."string urlencode(string str) - URL-ecodes a string." The function name makes that clear, but what does that mean, if you don't already know? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of referring to a book for clarification? "array pathinfo(string path) - Returns information about a certain string." Does that description clarify anything beyond the function name? They should have trimmed out more functions and included more information about the most important ones. Sadly, this is also the book used in Dreamweaver MX 2004 for online help, which is frustrating.
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