The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
| Other Digital Version |
Code
Code |
Why is the closing ?> tag absent from the PHP files included in the book's downloadable code? (The opening <?php is present, but not the closing ?> tag.)
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 21, 2018 |
| Other Digital Version |
Code
Code |
The answer to my previous question was found on page 42: PSR-2 Strict Code Style "must not include a trailing ?> PHP tag."
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 21, 2018 |
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Page 22
Example 2-15 |
2016-02-26 edition of book uses "simpleGenerator" as the name of the function whereas the first bit of code on page 23 uses "myGenerator", as does the code available for download (modern-php-master\02-features\generators\simple-generator.php)
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 21, 2018 |
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Page 40
Sentence above bullet list |
The sentence above the bullet list uses "five recommendations" while the list consists of six recommendations.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 27, 2018 |
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Page 53
Fourth sentence |
Mocked?
"Its concerns are few, and its dependencies can be easily identified and mocked."
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 28, 2018 |
| Printed |
Page 62
composer commands |
Using Composer version 1.6.2 2018-01-05 for Windows, the two composer commands shown on page 62 must not have the trailing semicolon; otherwise composer issues an InvalidArgumentException:
C:\...\url-scanner-app>composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle;
[InvalidArgumentException]
Could not find package guzzlehttp/guzzle;.
Did you mean one of these?
guzzlehttp/guzzle
puzzlehttp/puzzle
guzzle/guzzle
guzzlehttp/guzzle-services
forknetwork/guzzle3
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 22, 2018 |
| Printed |
Page 65
Paragraph preceding Note |
Using Composer version 1.6.2 2018-01-05 for Windows, global credentials are saved in %APPDATA%/ComposerSetup
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 22, 2018 |
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Page 65
Paragraph preceding Note |
I made a mistake; disregard my previous submission because the book is correct.as-is regarding Composer's global credentials being saved in %APPDATA%/Composer.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 22, 2018 |
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Page 77
2nd paragraph |
The text describing Example 5-1 uses "The second argument is the ENT_QUOTES constant, which prompts the function to encode single quotes." when in fact this constant "Will convert both double and single quotes." according to the manual.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 26, 2018 |
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Page 78
2nd paragraph |
It's incorrect to use "zip code" -- the correct usage is ZIP Code™ (first instance; 'ZIP Code' for subsequent instances).
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 27, 2018 |
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Page 78 & 79
User Profile Information (p. 78) & Validate Data (p. 79) |
Page 78 mentions filter_var() and filter_input(), and Examples 5-3, 5-4, and 5-5 illustrate filter_var() usage; why did you not include at least one example of filter_input() usage?
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 27, 2018 |
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Page 80
Escape Output |
You may want to mention this regarding "specify the appropriate character encoding (usually UTF-8) as the third argument":
[Quoted from PHP manual]
default_charset string
In PHP 5.6 onwards, "UTF-8" is the default value and its value is used as the default character encoding for htmlentities(), html_entity_decode() and htmlspecialchars() if the encoding parameter is omitted.
[/quote]
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 27, 2018 |
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Page 84
Line 10 of Example 5-7 |
Line 10 does not use the optional third parameter ('filter'). In this case, according to the PHP manual:
If omitted, FILTER_DEFAULT will be used, which is equivalent to FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW. This will result in no filtering taking place by default.
So one or more filter flags should be added to filter_input() on line 10.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 28, 2018 |
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Page 84
Lines 17-19 |
Lines 17-19 should be indented four spaces (not three) per PSR-2, 2.4 Indenting. See also 4.6. Method and Function Calls, whose second example indents four spaces.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 28, 2018 |
| Printed |
Page 85
Example 5-8 lines 5 and 8 |
As separately reported for Example 5-7, filter_input() is missing one or more filter flags.
E.g., compare Example 5-7 line 4 (page 83) with Example 5-8 line 5 (page 85).
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 28, 2018 |
| Printed |
Page 97-101
Code at top of page 97; Examples 5-20, 5-21, 5-22, 5-23, 5-24, and 5-25 |
As separately reported for Examples 5-7 & 5-8, filter_input() is missing one or more filter flags.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 28, 2018 |
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Page 102 & 103
Examples 5-26 & 5-27 |
Example 5-19 on page 96 uses include('../settings.php') while examples 5-26 & 5-27 use require 'settings.php'.
../settings.php is correct because this file must be located outside the document root.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 23, 2018 |
| Printed |
Page 106 & 107
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The penultimate paragraph on page 106 uses http: for the URL while the first paragraph under Stream Wrappers on page 107 uses https:.
Both URLs work of course; it's just a matter of consistency.
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 23, 2018 |
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Page 113
Example 5-35 |
Should
class DirtyWordsFilter extends php_user_filter
be this instead
class DirtyWordsFilter extends \php_user_filter
since this new class would presumably reside in its own namespace?
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Jim Kovacs |
Jan 23, 2018 |
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Page 126
Example 5-44 |
Example 5-19 shows the proper way to handle confidential credentials; so I have to wonder why Example 5-44 does not follow suit?
IMO Example 5-44 should be rewritten to include a separate settings.php file for the username and password credentials, and the email names and addresses.
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Jim |
Jan 28, 2018 |
| Printed |
Page 208
Mentoring |
phpmentoring.org is not what's described under Mentoring.
Did you mean php-mentoring.org?
|
Jim Kovacs |
Jan 23, 2018 |
