Dissapointingly inconsistent book

This book was an alright general introduction to PHP4 let down by a great number of inconsistencies between authors. They didn't introduce functions adequately in the latter parts of the book, for example in chapter 10 they start using new functions without any explanation of what they do or their usage, and the different authors didn't collaborate sufficiently as they use different ways of writing the same commands without any explanation (e.g. the echo "" and echo("") statements) and they also contradicted each other, for example again in chapter 10 the author uses typecasting while in a previous chapter we had been told this was unnecessary, and again no explanation is given as to why the author did this.

The examples are also very tedious and in some places extremely repetitive (chapter 10 repeats the same example ten times with very little change).

Overall a great dissapointment and it is also out of date as new PHP security means most examples will not work without changing to a weaker security setting.

Not recommended, there must be more consistent books about for PHP.

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