PHP Pro Quick Guide App Reviews

Search for "grep" or "curl" and get: nothing! Unfortunately these were my first two shots :-) Program is far from complete! Design and structure are promising and lets hope that the upcoming versions will provide the missing content. I dont regret the purchase and encourage the author to carry on with the app.

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its helpfull for a beginner and has much information

I really like the way the app has been done. Choose a function, see the description, then an example(s) of its use and finally the result / output of that example. Fantastic reference Love it!

Fantastic customer support. There is a tremendous amount of information and having such reference material readily at hand is already speeding up my productivity. The best ref I have found yet in the app store!

Ive been waiting for someone to bring to the App store a set of cheat sheets attractively formatted, up-to-date, and yet concise. Here the are! Bought 1, checked it over for issues, found none, bought the rest (except the HTML primer). Now please, how about Rails 3?

I wanted a handy reference I could carry with me and this is exactly that. Easy to find things in and it gives syntax hints so when Im feeling a bit brain dead I can still understand and remember a function I rarely use. Ill be buying several of the references.

Just get it!

Interface is alright, the left side is a simple slide list of all functions the author chose to include (not up to date with PHP 5 at all) The functions are ordered alphabetically by category, but what has to be the worst decision is the categories neither start out collapsed nor are they collapsible! So good luck finding a function if you cant remember a portion of the name, because the search bar wont help you either. Search is limited to the function names categorized and only filters the left side index, so if you are searching for something in the content, you will not find it using the search box. For instance, try to search for extension which shows up in several articles, clears the left side filter at exten. Without knowing at least a portion of the exact function name you are searching for (category headings are not included in search), the search bar is of extremely limited use. Has zero to no PHP OO concepts, functions, commands and SPL definitions, at least I havent seen one in the past 3 weeks Ive tried to find something in this app. Even functions added as far back as PHP 4.0.5 (thats over 8 years ago) are not documented. Operators like clone and instanceof are not covered. Nothing in the current Class/Object Information function section of php.net is included. If you code OO PHP with a recent PHP 5 framework, this app will have limited use. Basically this app is a modest rip of the PHP.net documentation circa 2003. If you are already PHP Professional, avoid this app. If you are a novice and have 99 cents to blow, go for it; the interface isnt horrible, and the content for what functions are there appears to be accurate. To the developer I would advise upgrading the content to at least 2010 online documentation and update both the search and sidebar index functionality for a REAL Pro version and relegate this edition to a freebie.

This app does what it needs to do. It is great for beginners or pros. I use it almost every day.

Needs mysqli extensions, otherwise great app

I got this after seeing how awesome the jQuery, JavaScript and CSS versions are, and indeed, it didnt disappoint -- just great, missing some functions though (which Im guessing the developer will include in a future release). It would have been great if there is a link from the refs to PHP Manual itself ( something like read more). Actually, that what makes it one star short.

Very nice organization and display. Oh, and convenient. A great quick reference. Contains MySQL, missing MySQLi and cURL would be a plus.

Easy to use, but very out of date. Lots of missing items.

Great reference for starting out

Introduction states "latest stable version is 5.4.3 (May 8, 2012)." If Id know this app hadnt been updated I wouldnt have bought it.