{"id":144,"date":"2006-12-11T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-php-5-in-practice\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T20:45:29","slug":"book-review-php-5-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-php-5-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: PHP 5 in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intermediate level book for active php programmers. From the book&#8217;s cover:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Recipes and solutions for PHP programmers&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0672328887&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a very good book, actually one of the best recipe books I&#8217;ve read period.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell that the authors are still actively writing code &#8211; you can feel it as you read the chapters. The book consist of a series of techniques (they call recipes) that are commonly needed by php programmers. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Some example recipes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to Sort Arrays<\/li>\n<li>Send HTTP headers<\/li>\n<li>Encode a string for use in a URL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; this book is packed with all kinds of php goodies. There is much more to be found .. I just never list too much from a book since you can easily look it up online. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE &#8216;QUICK HITS&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a brief introduction, each chapter provides a bunch of micro-tips related to the recipes discussed in the chapter. They call these tips: &#8216;quick hits&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I found the &#8216;quick hits&#8217; to be very useful because they provide a very concise and easy to read look at aspects of the php language. I can see myself referring to this book often just because of the &#8216;quick hits&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I actually keep this book nearby to flip through once and a while, just to give me ideas. It has already helped on a php 5 project I am working on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This I think is a great book. It has lots of practical information and is without a doubt, one of the most useful books on programming I&#8217;ve read &#8211; and I&#8217;m talking all languages.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the book if you work with PHP or planning to.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermediate level book for active php programmers. From the book&#8217;s cover: &#8216;Recipes and solutions for PHP programmers&#8217; This is a very good book, actually one of the best recipe books I&#8217;ve read period. You can tell that the authors are still actively writing code &#8211; you can feel it as you read the chapters. The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}