Better value for beginners
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This book contains well explained, manageable sized examples from basic through to advanced PHP. As I am not new to PHP, I found that the first half of the book was a bit easy and most of it I could do already. However, the later examples are really interesting.
A PHP beginner would derive much more value from the book because the basic stuff will set you well on your way and then you can grow into the more advanced hacks.
A few of the examples are not strictly PHP, for example making usable URLs with mod_rewrite is more of an Apache 'hack'. Still, it's relevant and I think it's nice to go a little beyond the PHP occasionally. Quite a lot of the examples are just fun stuff that you'd probably never use in a commercial environment.
So, if you want something different to do at the weekend, this is the book for you.
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Great list of practical examples
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The book provides an excellent list of UI tips and tricks with examples explained. Some back-end examples are available as well but a bit less interesting because they assume you are starting from scratch, which is rarely the case for me.
It also contains a good list of pointers to techniques that might help you improve your creations.
I was pleased by the fact that it treats of both PHP4 and PHP5, but a bit disappointed by it's lack of focus on W3C standards.It is clearly structured, well sorted into chapters and it provides a valuable source of code to keep at hand in the long run. A bit like a cookbook but still pleasant to read through as a "sequential" book.
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Please don't buy this book!
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It's not worth the money --> the examples are wrong and even beginners should know everything thats noted in there. So save some money and buy another book.
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