Doesn't Cover Everything

I have been programming in PHP for about 5 years now. I was looking for a printed reference to the language, essentially a dictionary for PHP, and decided to buy this. Although it documents some functions well, it does not document them all - for example it does not mention the htmlspecialchars function anywhere in the book. Another bad point that I noticed is that it feels very much like the first version, which it is, and has typos; even typos in the documentation of core functions like labeling htmlentities as "html_entities" (real function does not have an underscore).

My recommendation would be to find something else, or wait until they publish the 2nd edition.

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