10. Where now? or, Thanks & feedback
If you’ve read this far, thank you. I sincerely hope that this book has held your interest and at the very least informed some areas of your future PHP programming. If it has, I would encourage you to start some coding right now based on one or more topics in this book while they are still fresh in your mind. People far smarter than me have shown that the sooner relevant activity occurs after learning, the easier it is to retain information and techniques over the longer term. If you use any of the techniques presented in the book in “real-life”, I would be very interested to know! Finally, if you’ve not already headed for the keyboard, don’t forget to glance through the Appendices that follow. There may be something interesting or useful in there for you (either to use now or to be aware of for the future).
10.1 Giving feedback, and getting help and support
E-mail : author@phpbeyondtheweb.com
Your feedback on this book, good or bad, fundamental or trivial, is solicited and very much welcomed. Tell me what you thought about the book, overall or a particular section. Let me know if any areas weren’t covered in enough depth (or in too much detail), if any topics you were expecting weren’t present, or any of the information wasn’t clear. Likewise, if you have any problems getting the sample code to run, or issues implementing the techniques discussed please do drop me a line and I’ll see if there is any way I can help.
10.2 Are you reading a “pirated” copy?
There are times in my life when I have read “unauthorised” copies of books; when I couldn’t afford them, when they weren’t easily available through legitimate channels (local bookshops, online sales, libraries), or (for e-books) when DRM thwarted my efforts to read them on the devices I had available. So I quite understand if you are in this position, and I don’t want to criticise your choice. If you are unable to afford this book, perhaps you could consider purchasing it in the future when you are able, and in the meantime I would ask that you do me a favour in return - please consider helping me to promote it by recommending it to those that can afford it, have a go at reviewing it online, and otherwise spread the word. If you’re reading an unauthorised copy because there was something else (other than cost) blocking your access to a legitimate copy, please let me know and I’ll do my very best to remove that obstacle. I want to enable everybody who wants to buy and read this book to be able to do so with the minimum of fuss. This is why I won’t employ DRM on my work, because for every “pirate” that it stops (and it won’t be many), there are likely to be ten times as many legitimate readers who it annoys.
If you are reading an unauthorised copy because you simply don’t want to pay for it, then that is between you and your conscience.