On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Matthew C. Rice <mr...@rcs.us> wrote:
> David, > > > I personally have not read that book, as I actually heard pertaining to > objects ( where I too have had some issues ) it wasn't really a terrific > reference. Though if this is not the case, I would love to hear otherwise.. i found the oop section a bit lacking. one of the main issues is that the chapters are titled "php4 objects", "php5 objects", but really overall material is spread between the two chapters. like the section "working with instances" in the php4 objects chapter. where was its counterpart in the php5 objects chapter? what you begin to realize is a lot of the things are exactly the same, but i thought at least the organization was a bit awkward. also, im not sure if when zend_call_method and its variants appeared, i suspect after the books publication perhaps. that seems to be the way to go, calling class/object methods. the book illustrates call_user_function() which by comparison is really painful in working w/ objects imo. all-in-all though id say the book is solid. ive been able to accomplish everything ive wanted so far with my first extension. i dunno, ive not worked with a lot of C api's so far, but i think id probly have struggled getting started w/o the book. -nathan
