Linked by Adam S on Fri 6th Oct 2006 18:32 UTC
There's an interesting challenge in writing a good book about programming. At a certain point, you'll lose the newbies and alienate the technical. Below the line is a safe introductory book, above it is aimed at a smaller crowd. We had an opportunity review No Starch Press' Object-Oriented PHP, and found it fits nicely into the gap. 
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2006-05-01
Yeah, *I* agree with you. But that's besides the point.
If the OOP guys want to use PHP, that's great.
But the fact remains, PHP's OOP-direction for v6 and beyond *is* undeniably scaring away many people.
This isn't me talking, it's the numbers. Ask the PHP devs. I use PHP for OOP and you do too... But that scares the living shit out of a lot of others. OOP isn't hard, it's just perceived as being such by the n00bs and script-boys...