From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 12:43:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DD937B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from munk.nu (213-152-51-194.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0685A43FB1 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.20) id 19csBK-000CSI-1l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:43:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:43:18 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030716194318.GC46001@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030715202019.M83992@enabled.com> <20030716095702.GC88187@users.munk.nu> <20030716192817.GA11184@kongemord.krig.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030716192817.GA11184@kongemord.krig.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: User Munk Subject: Re: learning PHP - book idea? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:43:19 -0000 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:57:02AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > > If you already have the basics down, a good intermediate level book is: > > > > PHP Developer's Cookbook, Sterling Hughes, SAMS > > I own a copy of that book, and it's terrible. My recommendation is > to avoid it. I tried to use it a few months ago when I was doing > extensive work on a site, and everything I tried to use from the book > was buggy. In some cases, the bugs were obvious and easily fixed, but > in other cases, they weren't obvious and took time and effort to fix. > On the other hand, I've had no problems with OReily's PHP cookbook. In support of the author, he does answer emails very rapidly. In my experience the majority of the recipes worked perfectly. There was one specific PEAR class example (Net CURL iirc) which he'd added in the book but at the time hadn't actually released into the PEAR CVS repo. Oops ;/ YMMV -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/