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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So does this book focus on some of the special concerns of PHP?
Assuming a web system we have this to think about:
* Each class is parased, compiled and initialized for each and every request.
* The whole execution is geared towards a single request, and thus has no other concern other than to service this uniqe request.
* The execution is probably single threaded and is thus shielded froma alot of concurrency problems.
* Request data is availible in globals.
* Code in each layer can make theese basic assumptions about the execution.
In this environment there's a whole slew of patterns and idoms coming from the Java-OOP world that just doesn't make sense.
Edited 2006-10-06 21:11