July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
10h 9m
English
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Acknowledgements
This book would not exist without the assistance of many, many, many people. They have my sincere gratitude and thanks.
My largest debt belongs to the entire PHP community. Upgrading to PHP 5 could not exist without your efforts. I want to specifically thank these people for their special assistance, whether they knew they were giving it or not: Marcus Boerger, Zak Greant, Andi Gutmans, Sterling Hughes, Derick Rethans, Rob Richards, Georg Richter, George Schlossnagle, Christian Stocker, and Hans Zaunere.
Thanks also to the members of NYPHP (http://nyphp.org/) for sharing problems, ideas, and solutions. I’m lucky to have the world’s best PHP user group in my hometown.
Portions of Chapter 7 were inspired in part by Gunjan Doshi’s Best Practices for Exception Handling article on ONJava.com (http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/exceptions.html). I offer him my thanks.
Bret Martin and Rik Faith provided hosting. Because of them, the technical review process was smooth and easy.
Two people diligently reviewed Upgrading to PHP 5. Their comments and suggestions immensely improved all aspects of the book. Chris Shiflett and David Sklar are the two best technical reviewers an author could have. I am proud to call them my friends.
I want to thank all the associates of O’Reilly Media, Inc. for their help. I’ve met many O’Reilly employees over the years, and there’s not a bozo in the bunch.
These people, both directly and indirectly, contributed to the words, images, and pages ...
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