From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 13:17:58 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 D28EE37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:17:58 -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 28F4843FA3 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:17:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.20) id 19csir-000D12-H6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:17:57 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:17:57 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030716201757.GC49124@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> <20030716194318.GC46001@users.munk.nu> <20030716200506.GA12683@kongemord.krig.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030716200506.GA12683@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 20:17:59 -0000 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:05:06PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:43:18PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > > 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 ;/ > > I remember having to debug the database abstraction code, although I > no longer remember what the problem was. I tried to use other bits of > code that turned out to have bugs, none of them involving CURL. I > eventually stopped trying to use the SAMS book, and bought the ORielly > book instead. I'm sure Mr. Hughes is a good programmer, but I'm guessing > that he updated PHP3 code for PHP4 without testing it. For those of us > who don't programm PHP full time, this introduces subtle errors that are > sometimes hard to spot. Like I say definitely an intermediate level book, not really the best for learning from scratch from. I'm just wondering whether that wrox book is still in print? I'd heard rumours that they'd gone out of business and had left a lot of writers in the lurch wrt payments etc etc... just a rumour though :) Odd really because I'd heard that book you mention was supposed to be very good. -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/