I have been putting off reading this particular PHP book, mainly because I had been beefing up my main core skills/knowledge such as OO, XML, CSS, Javascript, and didn’t see a need to check out the “recipes” in this book.

This post will be like a first draft before I post this review on Amazon.

It’s very packed full of stuff that, instead of thinking: “i might need this particularly obscure thing later, but then again probably not”, you’ll probably consider getting a lot of use out of at least 75% of the “hack” recipes eventually.

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