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Title: Needs a Second Edition
Review: It's sad to say that this book is getting a bit out of date. So many of the examples use coding conventions which just don't apply any more. I also found it to have a fairly counter-intuitive approach. Why must we wait until halfway through the book before we see anything about databases? Surely databases are what server-side scripting is about?I came to this book, having been led into PHP by other titles I had read, but I felt - not so much dissapointed - but maybe just a bit dissatisfied. It seems there is no title out there which is sufficiently up to date to show me my next step. Perhaps this publisher is hanging fire until PHP5 comes along, but if they are I must say it's a frustrating wait for the rest of us who have to earn our living doing this stuff. Maybe I should try their Professional title?
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