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| Book: | PHP Pocket Reference | |
| Subject: | PHP Pocket Reference Review | |
| Date: | 2000-06-28 01:52:48 | |
| From: | Marc Burgauer | |
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I am surprised to find this long list of positive reviews here and no negative one. I know quite a few PHP programmers and we all agree that this book is a rip off. The book compromises a condensed version of the on-line manual. There's no index and there are hardly any of the exmples and explanations one can find in the on-line manual. If you know the command you are looking for, you will hardly find anything about it you don't know already, so the only useful information is the spelling. If you don't know the command, again you will hardly find enough information to be comfortable to use it. The only time I find this reference useful is when I'm on a train and write a PHP script into my Palm. (Yes, I am that sad. ;-) But I hope some good soul will make the reference available in Palm format, so I can at least use a search facility! My computer book shelf is packed with O'Reilly books and I have bought other reference booklets in the past that I find helpful, but this is simply not up to your standards and it does not make me hopefull about the "big book" that's still missing. |
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