[reacweb]

IMHO, I think the audience is me. I can program (perl, java, c++). I know that php is easy but that there are many traps. I need a book to be able to develop quickly with sane practices. The official documentation contains too much old crust.

[xemoka]

Too much old crust, but as other commenters around indicate, this isn't really solving that either: it doesn't talk about best practices or even highlight where the sharp edges are (EOLs and Namespaces are mentioned elsewhere).

[dvtrn]

This was my same takeaway thumbing through. I think I'll take the weekend to grok PHP a bit better.

Thanks for publishing this op!