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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9780764543647
ISBN: 0764543644
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 816
Publication Date: November 15, 2000
Publisher: Wrox
Sales Rank: 999343
Studio: Wrox
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Rating: - I went from Zero to Expert and this book was a big help
I like this book and highly recommend it. It is good for people who are new to PHP but not so good for people who are new to programming. I've done a lot of programming in other languages and needed to learn PHP in a big hurry for a project that I was about to take on. This book got me up to speed fast. I'm inclined to think that a lot of the negative reviews are from people without any programming background. I agree this book is not the right place to start if you are a non-programmer. I've ... Read More
Rating:  - It Gets The Job Done, But It's Nothing Special
If you've been programming for a while, the pace of this book is too slow to read cover to cover. The best thing to do is read the first half of the book (through chapter 9) and then skip around to what interests you. As others have mentioned, you will have to modify the code in the examples to get them to work because of the use of globals. This is not impossible to overcome if you write the message board for the book at http://p2p.wrox.com. However, it is annoying. There are other errors too, ... Read More
Rating: - Warning: error in most code
This book is very well written, but you should know that the code in the book is written with "register_globals" turned on in the php engine. This makes the code insecure and should be turn off. You have to alter to make it work.
Look at the errata for more info: http://www.wrox.com/books/errata/0764543644_errata.shtml
Rating:  - Dissapointingly inconsistent book
This book was an alright general introduction to PHP4 let down by a great number of inconsistencies between authors. They didn't introduce functions adequately in the latter parts of the book, for example in chapter 10 they start using new functions without any explanation of what they do or their usage, and the different authors didn't collaborate sufficiently as they use different ways of writing the same commands without any explanation (e.g. the echo "" and echo("") statements) and they also contradicted ... Read More
Rating: - Dissapointingly inconsistent book
The book is out of date as it covers PHP4 before security changes were made. It is also very inconsistant later on, as the various authors seem to believe in very different conventions, for example early on they claim type casting is unnecessary, then in Ch. 10 they use it loads - without any explanation, also in Ch. 10 they start introducing new functions without any explanation of how they work or even what they do (they explain some but not others) and the examples are really tedious due to similarity in some ... Read More
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