Rating: 

Examples are not clearly labelled, meaning that if you dip into this book you may end up applying these PHP4 methods when the whole point is to avoid them. Chapters are very poorly organised, meaning you aren't going to want to sit down and read it.

I found the chapter on OOP particularly confusing. The discussion of constructors and destructors was scattered around the chapter, as was the discussion of public, private and protected methods and properties. Code examples weren't clearly PHP4 or PHP5, either through labelling, the context in the text, and worst of all many that seemed to be examples of PHP4 use mysqli functions that aren't available in PHP4.

Sorry, but this book feels like a dud to me. O'Reilly should be updating Programming PHP and the PHP Pocket Reference, rather than selling this book.

My copy is on the way back to Amazon.