Rasmus Lerdorf

Completely obsolete, but I love this format of O'Reilly books-- the pocket reference, complete, but with just the most basic information presented usefully. The best ones always have battered spines, dog-eared pages, and post-it notes all through them-- the book as programming tool. As online manuals have become the norm, this kind of book is dying out. Sad, really, though inevitable.

PHP has a pretty extensive API, and since I don't use it as often as some other frameworks, this has been an invaluable resource for me. The only thing that could have made it more useful, I think, is if it had been grouped by functionality rather than throwing all the prototypes together in alphabetical order. While this is fine when I know the name of the method I'm looking for, sometimes that isn't the case, and I often end up having to go back to the PHP online documentation.

great book i loved it

Trop concis pour apprendre, mais bien pour retrouver des choses déjà vues. Il manque un index, c'est dommage.