"A notable achievement of the book is to present PHP5 as a fully object-oriented language, a perspective that simply was not feasible before."
—Sys Admin, November 2006 (Read more)

"The book illustrates good style in OO PHP5. The code provided is nicely written and makes intelligent use of PHP5's built-in library. The text is vernacular and confident . . . Lavin is at his best in explaining the ways different features meet needs that arise in real-world programming."
—UNIX Review, November 2006 (Read more)

"Well-written and immediately engages the reader with practical and clearly explained examples . . . If you are part of the target audience for this book, I think you will find it of great value, and I can fully recommend it."
—Groklaw, October 21, 2006 (Read more)

"By the time you've finished this book you'll have an excellent grasp of object-oriented programming . . . more importantly, you'll be able to create your own classes and extend existing ones."
—Rootly, October 21, 2006 (Read more)

"There's an interesting challenge in writing a good book about programming. At a certain point, you'll lose the newbies and alienate the technical. We had an opportunity review No Starch Press's Object-Oriented PHP, and found it fits nicely into the gap."
—OSNews.com, October 6, 2006 (Read more)

"Introduces OOP, explains why it's useful, and goes through to develop several sample applications to demonstrate OOPs power, and more importantly how to use it . . . I would recommend this book to beginner PHP developers, or intermediate developers who have not yet gotten their feet wet with OO."
—PHP Architect, Sept. 12, 2006 (Read more)

"A practical approach."
—SciTech Book News, September 2006 (Read more)

"Lavin's book is great, because it walks you through and explains how OOP in PHP should work . . . in an approachable and understandable manner."
—Blogcritics, August 31, 2006 (Read more)

"An interesting and challenging book . . . Lavin has focused on a highly useful area of knowledge for web developers and has done an excellent job. Recommended."
—Kickstart News, August 2006 (Read more)

"A top pick."
—Midwest Book Review, August 2006 (Read more)

"A good book for any traditional/procedural PHP programmer who would like to know what those object-oriented PHP programmers are so excited about."
—Bella Online, July 21, 2006 (Read more)

Book excerpt posted
—Linux Journal, July 15, 2006 (Read more)

Tech tip adapted from book included in newsletter with 25,000 subscribers
—Linux Journal Weekly, July 12, 2006 (Read more)

"The author takes a very practical approach that couples new concepts with easily reusable code."
—PHP Architect, June 27, 2006 (Read more)

From blog of well-known AJAX expert: "I've had a couple of really good books from No Starch and this is no exception to that trend."
—Brent Ashley blog, June 21, 2006 (Read more)

"Lavin's approach makes this book very easy to read . . . a useful book to add to your library."
—Linux Security, June 16, 2006 (Read more)