Comments on: Book Review: jQuery 1.3 with PHP

By: Ken Guest’s Blog: Book Review: jQuery 1.3 with PHP | Webs Developer

Ken Guest’s Blog: Book Review: jQuery 1.3 with PHP | Webs Developer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:02:01 +0000

[...] Guest has posted a book review of a new release from Packt Publishing – “jQuery 1.3 with PHP” (by Kae Verens). This [...]

By: kenguest

kenguest — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:19:04 +0000

@gaalan yes.

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:42:55 +0000

@memoclic – the brief I was given when writing the book was that it was for intermediate PHP developers who want to branch into client-side programming.

I’ve not tailored this to beginners – basically I assume that you are a PHP programmer, and so in the book I only explain those things which are different from what you already know in PHP.

The book also includes a few tricks which I came up with and wrote about on my own blog. As an example, I assume one of the things Ken mentioned was an optimisation “gem” was the md5 trick for making sure clients always have a fresh copy of the js scripts, and yet allowing caching to be freely done.

If you don’t want to splash out on a paper book, there are PDFs available from Packt, and even some pirated versions out there if you like to “try before you buy”.

By: gaalan

gaalan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:32 +0000

I don’t understand what makes this book impressive (I didn’t read it yet). I love jquery, I love PHP, but these are 2 really different technologies. They don’t “have to” work together. You could use Jquery+python or PHP+dojo. Why do I need a book to explicitely explain me how jquery+PHP works ?
Are there any specific PHP+jQuery use cases the book will teach me ?
Regards.

By: kenguest

kenguest — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:21:52 +0000

Good point – anything but beginner level to be honest; I think people with either intermediate or advanced levels of skill will learn a thing or two – maybe even three

By: memoclic

memoclic — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:14:29 +0000

nice review but what’s the level audience ? because only “for PHP application developers who want to improve their user interfaces through jQuery’s capabilities and responsiveness” is a bit vague or i missed the part where you talk about it (it’s monday morning hey…)
Is it more for beginners or an advanced user will learn one thing or two ?