I’m learning PHP
Photo of Page 44 of Learning PHP and MySQL showing the error in testing
Earlier I was sitting in Panera Bread reading Learning PHP and MySQL (which I now feel bad about purchasing as the second edition was out when I did so) and I came across this glaring error. I just thought it was funny and took a picture with my iPhone so I wouldn’t forget. On the next page (page 46, actually) they had a code sample demonstrating that you should put backslashes before quote symbols, and were using specialH2 inside of a class to demonstrate when you might forget to put backslashes. At the end of their code sample, after ?>, was specialH2. It didn’t actually need to be there, and I’m sure it’ll confuse a new programmer, but it’s there anyway. Later on (Chapter 4) they start wrapping their text after echo commands in parentheses, but don’t tell the reader why (however on this one, I may have missed something, and if I have please let me know).
I almost always find errors in books, and I want a good way to report these bugs.
