Davey has posted this new review over on his blog today. It covers one of the latest offerings from the php|architect press - a Guide to PHP Design Patterns.

This book is 336 pages long, so isn't a big heavy weight, but boy is it jam packed. This is the second (third?) in php|architect's new nanoBooks series.

This book starts out with a general description of what Design Patterns are, then it goes into Unit Tests (using simpleTest) and basic UML.

Throughout the book, Jason uses UML, code examples and unit tests to illustrate the Design Patterns in a very effective manner. Making it possible for even the most clueless programmer to pick up the ideas and start using them straight away.

This book covers everything from the Singleton Pattern all the way to MVC, the latter of which he goes into in great detail.

Overall, it's a good review for a new standard among PHP books. I've seen pattern books for general explainations of how they work, but it's nice to have this one to put it in a PHP context. Also, it includes examples/explainations on how to use the patterns with both PHP4 and PHP5...