Title: The quality doesn't match the bulk.
Product review: Given the esteem with which the authors are held, one might expect a much better piece of work than this effort. The volume is huge, the coverage of topics much too broad, to warrant the name Core PHP Programming.XML and Generating Graphics are certainly not a core piece of any programming language. Core means syntax, grammar, concepts and the indispensable basics. A mere 100 pages covers eight (8) different databases. There are more than one thousand (1000+) pages in the book ! Database connectivity and processing is probably the single largest application of PHP. You won't learnd much here. The coverage of XML, for example, is similarly shallow. This is certainly not suitable as a textbook. A sad performance by two very important people in the PHP community. From him to whom is given, much is asked. Caveat Emptor.
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