Rating:  - Good but examples are riddle with simple mistakes
I was hoping this book with explain the fine points in PHP 5 but NO! Starting on the 7th example (page 10), the author made two mistakes in his example: This is no such variable as $dbq and q->numrows is suppose to be q->numrows(). And there's more. I expected more from an O'reily author but....
For a beginning book, this book assumes you understand PEAR, have it installed and working. This is your basic college textbook: lots of theories -- no application. It looks like some college professor wrote it.
This book is a good starting point for the beginning PHP programmers but it it's not useful in trying to apply PHP to anything. Bottomline: I stopped after chapter one.
Rating:  - very useful, easy to learn book
I took my last programming language class 10 years ago, haven't programmed for more than 5 years. After I read this book for 3 days, I can do many easy PHP programs. Well worth the price paid.
Rating: - Great book if you are new to PHP.
Great book if you are a beginner. The book will teach you everything you should know to read avanced books.
After reading Learning PHP 5 I got everything that I wanted from this book. It presented the basics in a clear and concise way- so that you do not have to dig through the text to find what a particular thing means. Although it will not make you an advanced or expert PHP programmer, nor does it attempt to, you will learn how to write some basic functions and more importantly for me - read PHP code.
Rating: - Begin here
This was my beginning in php programming and I ended up making dynamic websites running with MySQL plus SQLite. The book starts easy and progresses from there, nicely written.
It is easy to use, read and if you have a genuine interest in learning (not buying the book and think that qualifies to then know) it is a great book. I was a complete beginner in PHP when I started with this book and now I can do pretty nifty things thanks to it, so I will say it is well suited for beginners.
Rating: - Learning is permanent
Self-training is a must these days, and this book has, at this stage of my life, greatly contributed to enlarge my knowledge into a programming language almost unknown to me until now.
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