Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition by Rasmus Lerdorf ISBN: 0-596-00402-8 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.68 (28 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a good format for a scripting tool reference.
Comment: I disagree with the reviewer who said this book is lacking an index. This book *is* an index, and not a terribly helpful one.
A Nutshell-type book makes more sense for a robust scripting tool. PHP is not a trivial or admin-oriented language; if you want to sell *any* reader on its virtues, you have to show what the language can do.
As a co-author of the The Java 2 Certification Study Guide, I can tell you exactly what readers think of a list of calls in print -- we used to have 200+ pages of that in the back of our book. Anyone who had anything to say about it called it filler, and they were right.
Make a PHP Nutshell book, and get someone like Flanagan to write it. Believe me, we'll buy it. Admittedly,I wasn't expecting a whole lot more than I got for the price of this book. But when an info-holic has a book he won't crack twice on a long plane ride, something's wrong with the book. :-)
Rating: 1
Summary: Worthless
Comment: The book needs an index...
also, the function list.. (very lengthy) is very poorly organized and layed out..
each line starts with the output type of the function.. (int,string,bool) etc.
consequently scanning the index for the function you're looking for is extreemely difficult.
You cant even easily find where you are in the alphabetized list without sifting through a buncha lines starting with 'string','int','bool'
it's a worthless pocket reference.
Rating: 1
Summary: A great disappointment
Comment: I have been a fan of O-Reilly Pocket References for some time. My colleagues would say that I am highly vested in them. Sadly, this is the worst one I've seen.
The first section is actually laid out very well. The syntax highlighting and language basics are described with succinctness and efficiency.
As for the second section, the function reference, it is basically worthless. Taking up a bulk of the text, this 97 page listing is nearly pointless, as so many have said before me. The listing is completely alphabetical, which means you have to know what you are looking for before you look for it. Assuming you know what to look for, then you most likely have some idea what the syntax is, making this, sadly, a waste of effort (although, I can't deny that a syntax reference can be useful, if organized properly).
I'd have two suggestions for the next edition. The function reference would be decent if it were categorized. Since this would prevent alphabetical ordering of entries, my second recommendation is an index, which many reviewers have requested before.
With this said, don't bother with this product (2nd edition), unless you *KNOW* PHP.
 |
Title: MySQL Pocket Reference by George Reese ISBN: 059600446X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: CSS Pocket Reference by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 0596001207 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
 |
Title: Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe ISBN: 1565926102 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
 |
Title: JavaScript Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596004117 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
 |
Title: HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition) by Jennifer Niederst ISBN: 0596002963 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
