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Pro PHP and jQuery (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

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If the jQuery syntax and and mechanism looks foreign and confusing to you, and you need help coming up to speed on it, then this is the book for you, or at least one of them. I liked the book. Although I've written a lot of server-side ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, etc. and a little client side js, I needed to quickly understand jQuery. This books was hands on and led me through writing a real-world application. It shows how to build a site without AJAX, but then incorporate jQuery/AJAX for those that can handle it, to make the site more like an app. I thought it was a great start. I think anyone understanding the basics taught in this book, should easily be able to grasp the jQuery ui without a book. That is if they have some rudimentary skills.

What is so good about Jason's books are that they dont waste your time on 10 pages of what is a variable. It gives your a concise guide into the world of jQuery, arms you with the tools to continue educating yourself, and then moves on to using it.

As far as PHP and OOP goes, this book picks off where Jason's last book left off. It gives you an detailed and succinct explanation of PHP and its OO concepts. Then he guides your though these waters helping you navigate ambiguous concepts.

BTW, he also has some great tuts on netttus. You can get a taste for his teaching style there. :)

I can't think of a title, but I do think I wasted the money on this book.

If you've never heard of PHP or jQuery, then this book will serve you well, provided you want to type page after page of code, html & css to make the example work.

The book has one primary example (an event calendar) which you mess with from start to finish.

Two thirds into the book you finally get into integrating jQuery with PHP. That doesn't last long and the author jumps to an intro into RegEx.

There are thousands of free web sites with better material, like IBM's Developerworks, for instance.

Pass.

I got this when it first came out thinking it would help me with jquery, but in fact it did not. i felt it didn't go far enough to use jquery where it should and some chapter was on oop php, which should a common knowledge to those reading this book.

i learned jquery more once i went through their api and articles that met my needs.

This guy is a smart. Obviously has some great great ideas. His programming style, however, is very messy. His codes are scattered all over.

Modularity is good to a certain limit. You don't make codes that go left and right.

Its hard for others to follow. Also the code provided from the website has some errors in it. His programming style makes it hard to trace the error(s).