On the PHPClasses.org blog today there's a new book review posted about a recent release from Packt Publishing - "Expert PHP 5 Tools" by Dirk Merkel.

"Expert PHP 5 Tools" is a book for every developer, beginner to expert. Even experts will find useful information between the lines. You do not really need to have much experience with PHP. If you are really beginning with the language, this book can boost your programming skills very quickly.

He mentions some of the topics in the book including continuous integration, deployment and some howto on debugging. The book won't teach you PHP, but it will introduce you to many of the tools offered to developers.

A new review of a recent PHP offering from Packt - Expert PHP5 Tools - has been posted to cmsreport.com today. It gives a basic overview of the contents and highlights a few of the topics covered.

Written by Dirk Merkel, this book will enable developers to write unit tests and practice test-driven development from an expert. The developers will also learn to develop their own coding standard and enforce it automatically.

The book gives tips and techniques on things like creating well documented code, keeping it efficient and maintainable and some topics not directly related to PHP like version control and automated build tools.