--- title: Book review: PHP 5 E-commerce Development | daily.dev description: A review of Packt Publishing's 'PHP 5 E-commerce Development' by Michael Peacock critiques the book for not using an existing framework, instead relying on a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-php-5-e-commerce-development-7po3l3e60 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Book review: PHP 5 E-commerce Development | daily.dev og:description: A review of Packt Publishing's 'PHP 5 E-commerce Development' by Michael Peacock critiques the book for not using an existing framework, instead relying on a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-php-5-e-commerce-development-7po3l3e60 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7PO3l3e60.png og:image:alt: Book review: PHP 5 E-commerce Development og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Book review: PHP 5 E-commerce Development **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A review of Packt Publishing's 'PHP 5 E-commerce Development' by Michael Peacock critiques the book for not using an existing framework, instead relying on a custom MVC-based framework with poor separation of concerns (SQL in controllers, no data abstraction layer). While the writing style is praised as clear and the e-commerce concepts well explained, the reviewer concludes inexperienced PHP developers won't learn best practices from it and does not recommend buying the book. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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