PHP Cookbook
by Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar

The following corrections were made to the 2/2003 reprint:

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem



(xvii) "XML-RPL" NOW READS "XML-RPC"


(xx) Acknowledgments: "Thanks also our reviewers" NOW READS
"Thanks also to our reviewers"


(7) all comment lines in code;
Spurious // HAS BEEN DELETED from the end of each comment line

(75) "Chapter 4" was listed twice at the top of the page. This HAS BEEN CORRECTED.


p. 93 - Recipe 4.11 the order of the parameters were also inversed for in_array, first code line under Solution:

NOW READS:
if (in_array($value, $array)) {


p. 94 - Recipe 4.12
The order of the parameters of the function were inversed.
array_search ($array, $value) 

NOW READS:
array_search ($value, $array)



[107] IN PRINT: Solution - line 4;
array_intersection()

NOW READS:
array_intersect()


(167) See Also: "Recipe 7.11 for defining a call dynamically" NOW READS "Recipe 7.12 for defining a class dynamically"


{197, 198} IN PRINT: Recipe 8.19, Inside the pc_debug() function in the first 
code block of the Solution,  inside pc_debug() in the first code block of the 
Discussion, inside pc_debug() and in the if()/elseif() statement in the last 
code block of the Discussion:
"defined(DEBUG)"

NOW READS:
"defined('DEBUG')



{244} Recipe 10.2

In the following code, the DBM handle was missing for dba_replace and dba_insert.
The code at the bottom of page 244 NOW READS:

$dbh = dba_open('fish.db','c','gdbm') or die($php_errormsg);

// retrieve and change values
if (dba_exists('flounder',$dbh)) {
   $flounder_count = dba_fetch('flounder',$dbh);
   $flounder_count++;
   dba_replace('flounder',$flounder_count, $dbh);
   print "Updated the flounder count.";
} else {
   dba_insert('flounder',1, $dbh);
   print "Started the flounder count.";
}


The DBM handle was also missing in the code at the top of page 245;
This code NOW READS:

// what fish do we have?
for ($key = dba_firstkey($dbh);  $key !== false; $key = dba_nextkey($dbh)) {
    $value = dba_fetch($key, $dbh);  => 
    print "$key: $value\n";
}


The DBM handle was also missing in the code at the bottom of page 246;
This code NOW READS:

// read in and unserialize the data
if ($exists = dba_exists($_REQUEST['username'], $dbh)) {
     $serialized_data = dba_fetch($_REQUEST['username'], $dbh) or die($php_errormsg);
     $data = unserialize($serialized_data);
} else {
     $data = array();
}


The DBM handle was also missing for dba_replace and dba_insert, in the code at the top of page 247.
This code NOW READS:

// write data back to file
if ($exists) {
     dba_replace($_REQUEST['username'],serialize($data), $dbh);
} else {
     dba_insert($_REQUEST['username'],serialize($data), $dbh);
}




{265} IN PRINT: Recipe 10.12, The seventh line from the bottom of the page;
 printf('<tr><td>%s: </td><td><input type="text" name="%s" value="%s">,

NOW READS:
 printf('<tr><td>%s: </td><td><input type="text" name="%s" value="%s">',


[326] code line before See Also;
xslt_close() NOW READS xslt_free()


[363] IN PRINT: code listing near the top of the page;
mysql_connect('localhost',$_ENV['MYSQL_USER'],$_ENV['MYSQL_PASSWORD']);

NOW READS:
mysql_connect('localhost',$_SERVER['MYSQL_USER'],$_SERVER['MYSQL_PASSWORD']);


[418] end of Example 16-1;
Missing final } HAS BEEN ADDED.


[430] IN PRINT:  8th block of code;
$headers = $mime->headers($headers);
$body = $mime->get();

NOW READS:
$body = $mime->get();
$headers = $mime->headers($headers);


[449]  last paragraph ("See Also");
gethostbyaddrl

NOW READS:
gethostbynamel()


{482} The very last line of the page: "passes it two arguments: 12 and 56."

NOW READS:
"passes it two arguments: 12; and 56."