It might take a while for NASA to replace shuttle instrumentation with PHP but who knows what will happen? Search for new innovation and 9/10 it’s been developed with PHP and it’s being offered as open source. With so many examples and so many people writing about it the Internet has become a giant PHP reference book.
It’s a physical reference book I would like to see. Not one that teaches the language, there are many excellent available already. A book that covers every possible subject that does not waste time on history or theory but demonstrates by example. It’s ok to explain the code, line by line if necessary, but the focus should be demonstrating on how to achieve a goal.
With resources such as php.net and the army of third party developers creating the most amazing code to achieve really trickey stuff the book could also avoid teaching you how to do something that’s already been done. A good example is grids. A common requirement and one with plenty of examples online, but there are no independent reviews without the author seeking an affiliate payout.
The book would list popular choices and demonstrate the benefits in a few pages thus avoiding the online trawl. If you know of one please let me know.
