PHP Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 810 pages
• Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Edition: 2nd Edition August 25, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0596101015
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596101015
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.6 pounds

Reader Reviews
This review is from: PHP Cookbook (Paperback) I ordered a copy of the "PHP Cookbook ORA", along with a copy of the "Professional PHP 4 web Development Solutions WROX". Upon reading both these books, i thought i should offer a honest review comparing the two: Both the books were informative in their own right o The ORA book had small snippets of code based solutions (very similar to the PHP Developers cookbook from Sterling and Andrei) that are very useful for programmers who are confounded with small to medium coding problems. However, there was nothing enterprising about the coverage, that one could not achieve from using a combination of the online docs + mailing lists. Another downside was that i could not find full solutions that i could re-use in my projects. On the Other hand, i found o The WROX book offered complete solutions to real world problems - a Simple/advanced CMS (the core of which you can plug into your site), a simple search engine, a classified ads board, and lots of cool creative case study solutions that i could extend to use in my hobby sites. The content was very enterprising and all of the solutions presented are the most popular one's amongst web developers these days. More interesting is that these solutions can be completely re-used and extended into your projects. However, the downside of this book is that you would need to have prior PHP knowledge either picked up from WROX' Professional PHP 4 (as is mentioned as a pre-requisite in the book) or from the Programming PHP ORA, or any another competent professional PHP programming books in the market. So the bottomline is: oCare for an appetiser - Pick up the ORA book. oCare for a full meal - Pick up the Wrox book. I am posting this same review for both the books (so customers can benefit from it). However, i have ranked the Wrox book, a notch above this one, simply because i wanted a burp:-) Comment | | (Report this)