Rating: 

Sixty pages of the same thing repeated to me over & over & over just to get to the stupid updatePage() function in the first chapter alone.

It was so bad that I returned it to Barnes & Noble and did not bother to read the rest.

Outside of the scope of the very poor client-side code conventions that were so eloquently articulated in a previous post. I was completely appalled at the quality of the PHP code that was supplied.

Given the fact that newbs will be reading this book, this is just further incentive for PHP developers (and aspiring PHP developers) to continue throwing out garbage applications.

This book was not worthy of the time it took me to go to the store, much less, the time I wasted reading the first chapter.

After reading Head First Design Patterns I apparently had my expectation set too high, however, I'm very disappointed.