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Format: Paperback
Author: David Sklar
ReleaseDate: 15 March, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Extensions? What extensions?
The index has exactly 1 entry for 'extensions' and even that is a 1 sentence footnote! Compare that to the 45 pages devoted to the subject in George Schlossnagle's book "Advanced PHP Programming" and you can get an idea of actually how deficient this book is in this aspect. You would think that a PHP book that actually mentioned "Extensions" as part of the title would cover extensions wouldn't you? Well in the case of this book you would be wrong. .

Not for beginners
If you are one, it maybe will render in 5 star. This is really only for advanced PHP programmers.

Good, but not great


It is a very good book, well written, and David Sklar really has done a good job writing it. I bought this book with high expectations. However, I didn't find it that useful. It wasn't even remotely close to comprehensive about what it covered, and made only footnote mention of other tools that are out there.

I ended up returning it -- something I rarely do. I didn't think it was worth the money. Most of this info is available for free online anyways.