Peter MacIntyre

I was hoping this book would do for PHP what Douglas Crockford's book did for JavaScript. However, I was disappointed. This is a decent introduction to PHP for programmers who don't know the language, but it's very shallow. The examples are rather short, and the author directs you to the documentation for most of the details. He introduces the appendix titled "The Bad Parts," by purporting "that PHP does not have any really bad parts"! He chalks up some "potentially tricky areas" to show more programmers' errors... Exactly the kinds of "bad parts" that language designers should try to mitigate. show less