PHP 5 Unleashed, published by Sams and written by a team of 7 authors with John Coggeshall as lead, offers a great representation of how powerful PHP can be. It covers a wide variety of topics from the standard databasing and form handling to handling XML, encryption and even direct input/output to an underlying unix operating system.
He describes the contents of the book as well as the chapters that he found particularly interesting. Overall, though, he found the book to be quite excellent - especially at showing the power of our favorite scripting language. Check out the full review for more...
