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I have to admit that I haven't read the entire book, but that's a good thing. You don't have to in order to get good use from it. The first half dozen chapters give you the boilerplate of PHP and, as a long-time perl hacker, that put me in very familiar territory. I started noodling about with test programs right away. The rest of the chapters cover specific topics that you can read as you approach those programming problems, or ignore if they don't apply to you. It's very well organized in that respect.

If you are the cover-to-cover sort, you will find that it's entertaining enough to give you the material without putting you to sleep. And for folks who perhaps don't have years of programming or web experience, David Sklar lays out the concepts in language simple enough for everyone to pick up.

Overall another very good and useful book.