Jeff Riedl - 2008-08-19 18:28:30
I believe this book does a really solid job of laying out the fundamentals - particularly in regard to security and data integrity. Be careful, though, as the scripts included are at times buggy and websites referred to often do not exist, do not load, or have been moved. (Smarty & safeHTML to name a couple.)
Sadly, I have not yet found where we can report errata for this book and I don't see where a user can check for updated information. Perhaps there are other books which do a little better job of keeping readers up to date.
