After years of purchasing (at $40-65 each) volumes of technical reference books, I’ve learned that not all are worth the money, so I started reviewing them at bookstores and my local library instead. The downside to doing this is that I don’t have the worthwhile books later on when I need to refer to them.

Here, at last, is the kind of online resource I need now, and can use in the future. My compliments on a nice piece of work, and my thanks for making it available to us all online.

Definitely a great link. Thanks.

‘lo everyone,

Thanks for your feedback on the book – if any of you think I’ve missed something out, please do get in touch.

Chris, thanks for taking the time to cite my email regarding errors – just yesterday someone spotted three more pretty dumb errors that I’m surprised managed to get through! :) Still, I think we’re getting closer to the point where open comments can begin.

George – you know what? You’re absolutely right. The regular expression chapters were one of the first few written, and I think you’re quite correct in saying that they don’t really set the level high enough for “guru”. Were there particular patterns you thought should be in there that weren’t? Let me know, and I’ll definitely include them. In the mean time, I’ll have a think about renaming the chapters so they’re more descriptive ;)

Also, congratulations on your Advanced PHP book – I recommended it twice in Further Reading chapters, and would recommend it more except for the fact that it might make people think you paid me ;)

Harry – could you be a bit more specific about the missing pieces of insight? IMHO, the current problem with the initial coding pages is that they are all written in a “this is the basics” way, so tips and tricks are just basically absent. I’m thinking maybe it’s worthwhile covering some extra include techniques in their own section later on in the book.

Anyway, thanks again for your feedback and hope you all enjoy the book.

–Paul

Very impressed to see a resource of this caliber online. As ghuytro stated with both this resource and php.net would be a great asset to anyone venturing into PHP either as a newbie or those switching from another language.

I asked Paul last month about adding a feedback mechanism, whether it was to make the entire thing some sort of wiki or just allow comments. I don’t think he would mind if I shared part of his response:

> I see where you’re coming from regarding
> allowing comments beneath pages, but I
> didn’t want to introduce that sort of
> thing just yet.
>
> The reason for this is because it’s
> essentially “first draft” right now: no
> technical editor has been through it, and
> neither has a production editor. As a
> result, it’s probably littered with many
> hundreds of basic errors that I’d like to
> get corrected before I open up general
> comments.

Why not just submit a bug report?

A very good link Harry, I’ve learnt some things from it that I haven’t seen covered in other books.

Definitely one to add to the bookmarks.