Do NOT purchase this book unless you enjoy being frustrated trying to find useful information in a flash.
As others have stated above, the first part of the book is awesome, and useful to newbies (and forgetful oldies) ... BUT
Indexing functions simply by alphabetical order introduces chaos to a reference system of a programming language. What happened to the succinct, well-organized idea of the first edition, where functions were organized by their uses? For example... all functions dealing with MySQL in one block, functions dealing with strings in another block and then THOSE blocks alphabetized.
I understand that the publisher might have thought not having to put in category headers would save some pages on printing, but their losing outright purchases due to the uselessness of this edition.
I don't even bother packing this when I travel; now I just troll php.net like I have for years while waiting for the new pocket edition. Guess I'm repeating that operating mode again for another year or so.....
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