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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2005-07-06
I agree with you, Adam. If you look at the comments both slight and I wrote above entitled See also..., you will notice how both of us were voted down for what I felt was insightful information. This wasn't adformation, but rather our own personal opinions. I would've killed for this column and our types of comments when I was searching for a book covering this topic. Instead, I was forced to search online for (what I felt was) the best starting point.
I hope people can understand that when I post a reference to something, it is anything but advertising. Notice how I never even referenced a web link in my post. I left it up to the reader to perform their own additional research, giving them only a starting point to something that has helped me finally grasp the concept of object oriented programming and patterns.