NYCPHP Meetup

[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Jeff Siegel wrote:

> Some of these books have great ideas but make life quite confusing for
> the newcomer. Some books use $HTTP_POST_VARS and others use $_POST in
> their code. (See note 1 at
> http://phundamentals.nyphp.org/PH_bookrecommendations.php). It depends
> when they were written. And, as you found out, some assume
> register_globals has been turned on.

FWIW, "PHP Cookbook" assumes register_globals is Off and always
superglobals like $_POST over the $HTTP_POST_VARS equivalent.

However, it is not a book I necessarily recommend to someone just
learning PHP. It's a book you should when you've been programming in
PHP for six months or more. (Unless you've been a programmer in a
previous life; then you should buy "PHP Cookbook" right away.) :)

-adam

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