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Summary: excellent writing
Comment: I bought this book after studying PHP with the author's online tutorials. They covered quite a bit of what was in the book but I enjoyed the online version so much, I decided to thank him for putting a free online version out on the net by buying his book. In addition, I like to have the hard copy for a reference. Excellently written and one of the clearest and easiest programming books I've every read. It is also one of the few programming books I have read without any programming errors in it.
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Summary: Decent broad coverage of many PHP basics
Comment: A decent broad coverage of many PHP basics but I didn't really learn much more than I had found on my own by randomly poking around in the online PHP manual every time I needed a function to get a job done. I was hoping that reading a book like this from cover to cover would expose some parts of PHP I missed or teach some techniques and best practice that I didn't figure out myself. Unfortunately it did not.
For someone who known no PHP at all (and no C) I would give that a 4 star rating. But every PHP programmer has access to great free online PHP manual so I think this book has less value. And anyone who knows C can start programming PHP right away without reading much of anything. I assume the average programmer knows some C or Java and can read the online PHP manual. For those people, this book is no better than 3.
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Summary: Well done and to the point.
Comment: Doesn't waste my time with how to run an editor and doesn't assume I know too much, either. The examples are concise.
This book works well as a handbook and as a text. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Great Reference
Comment: This is a great reference for beginning and advanced PHP programmers alike. I have used this book to furhter my knowledge with PHP and still use it when I need to refer to a paticular feature or tag in PHP.
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Summary: Good overview of PHP
Comment: A good overview and reference for PHP. Readers should have some knowledge of other programming languages or scripting languages. A couple of typos here and there, but overall has very high quality just like all the other books in the "in a Nutshell" series.
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