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Review title: Clearly, a book for beginners. Get the online docs.
Product review: As an experienced programmer, I found this book really frustrating. While it covers lots of other web-related subjects like SQL, LDAP, XML, etc., there's *no* reference manual, and no formal description of the language. If you have a very precise question (e.g.: how do you pass arguments by reference), you have to look at all the examples. Well, some useful information can be found, but you really have to look hard. What's more, the indexing is a joke.No, the title is a con. This is not a book for professionals. A more appropriate title would have been: "Building Web-Enabled Applications for Beginners" or something like that. It's not a bad book per se, but it is aimed at beginners and the title and the publisher's description fooled me into buying it.Experienced developers, stay away from this book!
