Product DescriptionDon't spend your time wading through manuals to learn PHP 5. Spend it doing what you do best - creating web pages! With 'PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development' you can get up and running with PHP 5, Apache, and MySQL with ease. By the time you're finished, you'll be able to display dynamic content, build your own contact management system, create custom reports, work with XML, and much more. Less time, less effort, more results!
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Some errors...but overall ok...
This book had some errors in it...just typos if you want to call. But hey overall it was a good book.
I just wish it covered a little bit more on the MySQL unit, such as database normalization. I already know how to do it but just for others sake the book should have covered that more.
I also feel the same way about the Object Oriented Programming part. That should have been an entire chapter. Because the major change in PHP 5 is the concepts of OOP in the new PHP 5.
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Rating: - Not for a complete beginner
This book starts great with step by step instructions to get going on installing a WAMP/LAMP evironment and creating a DB, but then the author hits the turbo button and creating your first table involves loops, counts, subsets, if/else, and other programming techniques with very little description of what or why....more of a "ohh, put this here" rather than a detailed explanation. For a beginner, I feel like this book will force memorization rather than understanding.
Rating: - Stay far away, to many errors
I bought this book hoping to be able todo basic things with PHP 5 and learn the basics of the language, at first it started out fine until i hit the sectin on using variable from there the book is horrid syntax errors that just repeat I don't know how someone couldnt catch them ( does the company and publisher even test the code ? ) thanks to everyone in ##php on irc.debian.net i was able to walk through the next few pages coirecting well over 12 errors in one script and there is no erratta for this ... Read More
Rating: - Excelent!
I highly recomend this book to anyone that has no experience in PHP or MySQl and has a desire to learn both. This book's step by step chapters makes it easy to learn and use PHP. Before I was done with this book I was already coding my own PHP/MySQL programs and rewriting open-source PHP programs like PHP-Nuke and phpBB among others. This book is an excelent buy at any price!
Rating: - Thumbs up for this book!
Using this book and a few choice websites, I was able to create my very own PHP/MySQL driven website for users to sell books.
I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to learn PHP that have *some* programming experience
- Some errors...but overall ok...
- Stay far away, to many errors
- Excelent!
- Thumbs up for this book!
