My fourth book. It explains some topics clearly and picks up on details in methods and nomenclature which were left out of the others, making them confusing. The text, itself, is relatively clear, and there are good indexes and lists.
Still, the author makes assumptions of the reader's familiarity with coding, leaves the occasional logical stretch to be figured out. The examples are not extremely user friendly. It is thorough, perhaps too much for a first look at PHP.
