John Lim of PHPEverywhere has posted this new mini-review today of the popular Prentice Hall book PHP 5 Power Programming.

I've been having a look at PHP 5 Power Programming by Andi Gutmans, Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans. In the spirit of open source, there's a free download of the complete PDF too.

The most interesting parts for me was the information on PEAR. I haven't really been following what they have been doing, and it's covered here in mind-boggling detail. However I think because of this deluge of information on PEAR, it shows a bit of bias because it doesn't cover popular libraries outside PEAR such as Smarty and the like. AFAIK, parts of PEAR are not still not PHP 5 compatible too (correct me if i'm wrong).

Seems like he agrees with most of the other commentaries on the book - it's a good resource for someone getting into PHP5 (or, as he suggests, PEAR), but it's not a hand-holding "here's a start to PHP" kind of book.