Errata

Upgrading to PHP 5

Errata for Upgrading to PHP 5

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 9
1st and 2nd code examples

After querying the database, you try to fetch an associative array from the query
result in $r instead of $result.

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Page 16
2nd code example

When demonstrating pass-by-reference, you call the Person class' setName() method as
a function in the global name space. You should be calling the editName() method
instead.

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Page 18
1st code example

sendEmailTo($rasmus) should be sendEmailTo($rasmus2)

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Page 23
in the class Database

function database($host, $user, $password);
should be:
function Database($host, $user, $password);

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Page 24
Bottom of the page, in code block

class database {
should be:
class Database {

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Page 25
First sentence

"...there's no need for use register_shutdown_function()"
should be:
"...there's no need to use register_shutdown_function()"

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Page 26
3rd paragraph

"PHP will still find a the class definition."
should probably be:
"PHP will still find the class definition."

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Page 35
10 lines from bottom

$area = math::pi * radius * raidus;
should be
$area = math::pi * radius * radius;

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Page 137
first code block ending with "$email = $xpath....."

First code block should end with:
$emails = $xpath->query.....

"$emails" instead of "$email"

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Page 146
Table 5-3

The text in Example 5-21 on pg 147 illustrates that the
PHP 5 class node-creation function for 'Attribute' nodes
should be 'new DOMAttr()' (not 'new DOMAttribute()' as
shown in Table 5-3).

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Page 242
Example 9-4

Currently the code block ends with:

} (SOAPFault $exception) {
print $exception;
}

This should be
} catch (SOAPFault $exception) {
print $exception;
}

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