Way, way too ambitious for one book.

This book has some real gems in it, like the part about how to prevent hi-jacked sessions and cross scripting attacks. Which is why I gave it two stars.

But this book really needs to be split into 3 or 4 volumes. The author just cannot do justice to the complexity of the topics involved. And his lack of coding examples, typically 4 or 5 brief lines, shows this.

As for his "complete" examples, e.g. of a calendar project, he waxes so obtuse with his OOP coding that, not only does the project not work, good luck in trying to fathom it! (I spent two fruitless days at this task and finally gave up. And I have already written and sold a commercial calendar/scheduler to various companies.)

So, unless you are a programmer at the near genius level and you can extrapolate from coding samples like an Einstein at the chalk board with calculus & and a slide rule, the average programmer out there is going to need something much more basic than this book -- if he or she wants to explore the advanced topics it trys to present.

Other Reviews

• One Star is too high for this book
• Outstanding Book on PHP and MySQL
• Way, way too ambitious for one book.
• Great Intermediate level PHP book
• Good materials to start off with but needs proof reading