Extending and Embedding PHP

Sara Golemon

Wednesday, June 7. 2006

Posted by Sara Golemon in PHP

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Extending and Embedding PHP

It's official!!!! After a year in development Extending and Embedding PHP is now shipping from fine book stores everywhere.

I've gotten good reviews from the half dozen people I know who've gotten their hands on it, and I am really satisfied with most of it. Do I think it could be better? Of course I do, but I don't think I was ever going to be completely satisfied.

I've learned a lot through this process and while I don't see any more titles in my immediate future (there are things coming down the pipe which are likely to change my availability), I do expect that my next book, should it materialize, will be even better.

If you pre-ordered it, you should see it soon, if you've already got your copy, let me know what you think! Did I skim over some topic too quickly? Did I belabour something else? If this book eventually finds it's way into a 2^nd edition (no promises mind you), are there topics you want to see added? Tossed out? Expanded/Compressed?

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Sara Golemon's long awaited book "Extending and Embedding PHP" is finally shipping. Congratulations, Sara! Being a contributor to the PHP project for about six years now, I have been looking forward to this book. True, there is always the source co

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Congrats, Sara!

#1 Chris Shiflett (Homepage) on 2006-06-07 16:14 (Reply)

Congratulations on your bouncing baby book!

I _will_ get hold of a copy. Hell, I think I need one

Thanks!

#2 Steph on 2006-06-07 19:29 (Reply)

Awesome

#3 Wez Furlong (Homepage) on 2006-06-07 20:48 (Reply)

congratulations!!

#4 Christian Wenz (Homepage) on 2006-06-07 22:50 (Reply)

Congratulations! You must be feeling very proud to see your name on the cover of a book!

#5 Rob... (Homepage) on 2006-06-07 23:59 (Reply)

Compliments, Sara! I'm really curious about it, but I bet it will be great

#6 Mike on 2006-06-08 05:22 (Reply)

Congrats!

Sounds like an excellent book, I am going to get myself a copy

#7 Matthew Fonda on 2006-06-08 09:48 (Reply)

Congratulations, The book is exellent, and very much enjoyed...

I am very proud of you...

cheers...

--Ange1a

#8 Ange1a (Homepage) on 2006-06-08 19:00 (Reply)

Congrats! Its already on my wishlist .. but maybe I need to fast track the aquisition by dropping some cash of my own.

BTW: Amazon one should "Buy this book with The Zend PHP Certification Practice Test Book: Practice Questions For The Zend Certified Engineer Exam by John Coggeshall today!"

I think that is pretty funny

#9 Lukas (Homepage) on 2006-06-09 01:29 (Reply)

Arrgh! Look what amazon.co.uk has done to you:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232704X/202-5480364-9303025

What's the chance I'll get the right book?

#10 Caroline Maynard on 2006-06-09 08:49 (Reply)

George and Wez were the ones originally slated to write this title (listen to my podcast interview for the whole story -- http://podcast.phparch.com/main/index.php/episodes:20060602 ). The book is still the mine though

#10.1 Sara Golemon on 2006-06-09 11:58 (Reply)

I decided to buy a copy of the book after listening to your interview with Marcus Whitney on the pro-php podcast. Ordered it on Friday from chapters.indigo.ca in Canada, got confirmation that it shipped on Sunday night and now I have the book sitting next to me!

I look forward to reading it on my train ride in and actually trying to create my own PHP extension.

#11 Chris Hartjes (Homepage) on 2006-06-12 09:38 (Reply)

Huge congrats from all of us at Business and Technology Solutions at UC Berkeley. We are very proud to have you as a teammate. Onward, upward!

#12 Tessa Michaels on 2006-06-16 06:02 (Reply)

Just ordered your book and looking forward to reading it. I've been waiting for a book with this content for some time.

(Mind you, I can't find a TOC anywhere so I'm hoping it's all about PHP internals and PECL related stuff as opposed to yaPHP book!)

I see it's not yet listed here: http://www.php.net/books.php

Hopefully it will be soon.

best regards
--Andy

#13 Andy Kirkham on 2006-06-30 01:15 (Reply)

amazon.com has a "look inside" which'll show you that, yes, It is about internals. Glad to hear you bought a copy, I hope you like it.

Thanks for the reminder about php.net/books.php, I'll add it now, should show up on mirrors in 15-30 minutes.

#13.1 Sara Golemon on 2006-06-30 19:43 (Reply)

I just finished reading the book, btw, I had no idea you wrote it when I stumbled here from a Zend Dev Zone article comment someone posted. Nice work on the book! You made it soo clear and simple; I have already installed PHP everywhere, I even have my kitchen sing running PHP now!

#14 Charles Schaar (Homepage) on 2006-07-06 07:52 (Reply)

Thanks for your book!

From Italy

#15 Felix on 2009-02-02 05:11 (Reply)

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