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Book:   PHP Pocket Reference
Subject:   PHP Pocket Reference Review
Date:   2001-09-06 13:00:31
From:   Rich Furman
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

This book has a promising introduction. Unfortunately, as a pocket reference it's useless. It gives the names of functions and most of the functions' prototypes, but no use examples. A Nutshell book would have been more useful. For my PHP needs I left the O'Reilly fold and bought APress's programmers introduction to PHP. It has a complete command reference WITH code snippets, a solid discussion of the language, and a thorough discussion of concepts I sense Lerdorf would have liked to explore further if he had not been bound by the pocket ref format.

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