Is "PHP In Action" still one of the best books

Question

Hi

A friend directed me to this Question "What is the best PHP programming book?" and from there suggested that "PHP in Action" is the book for me (me been a born again programmer that hasn't coded in 7 years but wants to re-code a project i got outsourced).

The question i ask, "is it still one of the best books to learn php or has php moved on and there are newer books with better info which includes using a framework ?"

Thanks Fab

Answer 1

The book was published when the current version of PHP was 5.2.3. The current PHP version as of this writing is 5.3.3, so the book likely does not cover some of the features introduced with 5.3., namely Closures, Namespaces and some of new Spl DataTypes. But the book covers a lot of basic and advanced programming principles, so I'd say it is still very valuable, especially when being a reborn coder.