Hey Brook!

Good to hear you're going over it again... the reason I say this is - I too used to read books and skim over code, try to understand, etc - but 8 months later of on again, off again reading, watching, etc I was still lost...

For the FIRST time ever dealing with PHP, I actually started coding along with the Examples and reading the comments (// commented lines) and then viewed the Examples, reasoning they gave throughout the book... I have to tell you - THIS is what really makes the book so excellent. Not only do they have more than ONE example to build out - they have MANY examples that are all based upon the most popular scripts people use online.

I hope you keep it up - you'll be very happy you did! :)