Re: Rasmus, O'Reilly, "Programming PHP"

The book will be coming out. I have seen the galleys and the appendices have gone in. -Rasmus On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, DL Neil wrote: > Hi Erik, > > > > Rasmus/others, > > > > > > O'Reilly are advertising the imminent release (Mar 2002) of > "Programming > > > PHP" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp/desc.html). > > > Is that still going ahead? > > > (I'll submit an advanced purchase order...) > > > > > > > Hmmm... on the one hand, it's an O'Reilly book, and their books tend > to > > shine pretty brightly (though I'm extremely fond of two of my New > Riders > > books, "MySQL" by Paul DuBois and "Python Web Programming" by Steve > > Holden, very well-written and well-made books). But on the other > hand, > > the writeup at O'Reilly that you link to doesn't really entice me -- > it > > seems to offer the same topics as most other non-introductory PHP > titles > > out there. > > > > I'd probably pick it up regardless, if only to demonstrate to O'Reilly > > that there's a demand for more books on PHP. To date, their PHP > > selection is pathetic. > > > > David, did you hear anything more about this? > > You pretty much summed up my viewpoint. > > No I haven't heard any more, but Rasmus has been a bit busy having his > hand crushed and practicing baby noises, so he's probably in no shape to > respond just yet! > > All I can find repeatedly says 'any day now', but there's no hard data > beyond what can be seen (your (IMHO valid) comment notwithstanding) at > the O'Reilly site. > > Am not keen to put in an advanced order, sight-unseen; and the man is > usually right here, so ... > > Regards, > =dn > > >