Rating:  - Encyclopedic, but no longer online
Fantastic reference book with code snippets for every function.
My only complaint is that although the book was released under the Open Publication license (allowing it to be freely distributed), the book's website (www.php-er.com) no longer contains the book contents.
Let's hope that this great book becomes available online once more, preferably as a PDF file. I'd love to have it on my computer as well as in paper format.
An update to the new PHP 5 release would also be great.
Rating:  - The ideal desktop reference
It's more then the usual printed version of php.net manuals, this book actually give you usable examples along with clear function explanations. The ideal desktop reference for the serious PHP programmer; just not for people that need to learn PHP
Rating: - Essential book for all PHPers
You'll have this book within an arm's reach at all times. It's packed with every PHP function and has excellent examples for each one.
This book is absolutely ESSENTIAL for anyone diving into PHP/MySQL. Don't start PHP without it.
Rating: - Excellent Reference Book
This book has an excellent easy to use layout and contains just about every PHP function you can imagine. Each function includes a description of the values the function requires and returns along with some sample code showing its usage. It's not for beginners trying to grasp the initial concepts of PHP, for that I'd suggest the PHP Visual Quickstart Guide by Larry Ullman. For anyone else, this is an indispensable reference! It's worth every penny!
Rating: - A goldmine of easy to find information.
I own a number of so-called 'essential' references for many languages, and over a dozen PHP books that claim to be the end all of PHP documentation.
If you have already learned PHP but are human and cannot remember every function's name or syntax, this book is for you.
It is organized in clear and concise format, you can find your needle in a haystack either by looking in the grouped chapters, or if you know the name of the function, just not the details (which in reality happens more often than not ) the well stocked index will get you going.
This ...I prefer having the hardcopy in my hands when coding so that I can quickly jog my memory without having to navigate through the web for the info.
This book, along with the PHP Developer's Cookbook by SANS should be on *every* PHP Developer's desk... not the bookshelf!
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