php 5 recipes
PHP is such a great language. It's incredibly easy to learn and lets anyone make a full featured webpage in almost no time. Years after PHP first became popular and the excitement has settled down, we find it's matured into one of the strongest scripting languages out.
PHP 5 Recipes is a perfect reference manual for PHP. Absolutely everything is covered: image libraries, objects, regular expressions, basic concepts, web-specific features, database access, and more! You can either use the book to look up information on a certain action, or use the very detailed index to search on a specific function.
While this book won't teach you how to become a better PHP programmer or any advanced programming concepts, it definitely deserves a place on your bookshelf for a great, complete PHP reference book. I give it a 9/10.
