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Title: Php Developer's Dictionary by R. Allen Wyke, Michael J. Walker, Robert M. Cox ISBN: 0-672-32029-0 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent reference
Comment: I'm only giving this four stars because the information is freely available elsewhere. Nonetheless, this book is a wonderful reference to have on hand. It's the only PHP book (and I have plenty) that consistently sits on my desk. I find it to be a valuable reference tool for quick lookups, and for finding functions that I'm not sure how to spell.
It's a dictionary--not a tutorial. It doesn't teach you how to write your code (when was the last time you used a regular dictionary to come up with structure and form for a poem? You don't. You use it to look up words.) If you're looking for tutorials, you'd be better off looking elsewhere. If you use PHP day in day out, you might find having a paper reference on your desk to be helpful. Sometimes you just don't want to have to call up another web browser to search php.net, or wait until your DSL provider decides to spring back to life and allow you to search the net for a bit of syntax that has slipped your mind. The price is right, and it's a good reference book to have in addition to a book of tutorials or other learning material.
Rating: 3
Summary: Average
Comment: Nothing too spectacular here. Basically it is the manual from PHP.net reworded a bit and put in a book. What really disappointed me was that I could find no reference at all to the manual on PHP.net. I really thought they should have included some type of mention in the Acknowledgements section.
On to the book. They do provide a brief introduction to PHP. It is exactly that, brief. It is not meant to be exhaustive as this book is a reference book, not a tutorial.
Before I got this book, I exclusively used the PHP.net manual to look up functions and such. When I got this book, I really didn't think it would be of any use. I have found, however, that by keeping it right there on the desk I do look things up in it. Sometimes it just feels better to look something up in a good old paper book. It is also nice to be able to have the page open and glance back at your code to compare syntax.
Would I recommend this book? It all depends what you plan to use it for. The manual will definitely suffice and will be more current. But, if you are just itching to get a PHP reference manual in a hard copy, this is your choice.
Rating: 1
Summary: There are many other php books
Comment: I own and constantly refer to this book and am constantly disappointed. The PHP Developer's Cookbook (nearly identical cover) is a handy book, but don't waste your money on this one. If you need a good basic introductory text on PHP look to the 56 other PHP titles Amazon stocks. The examples in this one are unclear, the treatment of most topics is incomplete. While the introductory chapters provide an interesting overview of PHP's functionality, it cannot be depended on as a faithful reference for day-to-day use.
Just compare its treatment of classes or data types to that in other texts. Or give a careful read to functions that require careful documentation-like formatting of dates. The book just leaves you confused or in the dark. The book doesn't even do a decent job of summarizing the online docs. I wish I had been more careful.
Whether you are a beginner or an advanced developer this is just not the title you want.
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Title: Perl Developer's Dictionary by Clinton Pierce ISBN: 0672320673 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson ISBN: 0672317842 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: JavaScript Developer's Dictionary by Alexander J. Vincent ISBN: 0672322013 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 29 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition) by Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski ISBN: 0672323257 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe ISBN: 1565926102 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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