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Summary: Great Book with the involvement of other books
Review: Only one year ago I had no understanding on PHP, MYSQL, Apache, RedHat or Unix, nor did I have any formal training in programming. Now, I have written very elaborate and fully expandable programs that are portable from one application to another and have been promoted Sr. Web Designer in the Internet Systems Department of my company.
This book was one of my frequently used library of books which included MySQL, PHP, Apache, Redhat and Unix Manuals. If you have a good base for programming you may not need it but it will help you create a structure for your code to follow, unlike most PHP code that is out on the web now. PHP is a pretty easy to understand language once you make it past the learning curve so, therefore there are tons and tons of horribly disgusting code that works. This book will help you learn to build your code so that you can use it over and over and not limit your ability for expansion. I do recommend this book but only if you accompany it with other important manuals.
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Summary: Great for a quick introduction to PHP and MySQL
Review: Overall, I found this book to serve as an excellent introduction to development using PHP and MySQL. The authors have a refreshing, no-nonsense approach to presenting information on MySQL and PHP quickly and in an easily understandable manner. However, on the flip side, this book is definately not for the beginning programmer. It is clear that the authors assume at least some familliarity with procedural programming languages, especially when presenting their examples. In the end, I heartily recommend this book to its target audience- programmers with some experience looking to learn how to use PHP with MySQL.
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Summary: Suitable for beginner to intermediate programmer
Review: Personally i have some experience on perl/cgi programming, thus this book provide me a new perspective to web designing using a different programming approach thru PHP. if u are at the cross junction in deciding whether to learn perl or php, i will personally suggest perl 1st and later on, on php. but mysql is a must is u want to create a database website. this book is easy to undestand but while i was reading from page 1 to 80 i realise there are some programming syntax that are misleading, to list a few, signed and unsigned integer are interpreted wrongly, so are GET and POST interpreted as action in HTML form Tag. just be alert while reading this book.But on a whole i give this book a 4 because it gives u 7 practical useful web application ranging from guestbook, survey, catalog, shopping cart etc. this book provides a good readup for MySQL on chapter 1 whether u are using perl or php. buy this book if u want to learn php for web database implentation. it is straight to the point. and if u want to know more indept on MySQL u can trust on paul dubois's MySQL. i gave that full thumbs up.
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Summary: Good content, awkward text
Review: The authors provide a good coverage of using PHP and MySQL. They guide the reader through the elements of the language and using PHP and MySQL together well. I also found the summary of MySQL functions and the PHP function reference in the appendix to be helpful. Several example application systems are provided that are very relevant to current practical web database system applications, this is a big plus. Another nice feature of the examples is a database schema is included for each application -- nice touch! ... but the text is somewhat awkward, I fault the publisher. My first comment is that the code samples and snippets in the text are TOO LARGE, the font appears to be about 2 sizes larger than the body text. Also, the headings and subheadings in each chapter are hard to distinguish, maybe this is an M&T Books standard. I don't mean to be picky but I had a hard time reading the text and the large font probably added 80 pages to the book. Also, more screenshots could have been provided for the applications showing the user interface.
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Summary: Great for someone with programming experience
Review: The chapters are easy to follow with real examples of how aspects of the languages work. Right away, the authors show you how to write a guest book, ending with how to write a shopping cart. I highly recommend this book to anyone with prior programming experience that wants to learn a new language.
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Summary: Too many typos
Review: There are typos everywhere. Often the typos render the code unusable. For the person who is learning these two development tools (which should be the target audience) you can't figure out why the code doesn't work. I hate paying money so that I can be frustrated.
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Summary: Great to get a grip of it...but not for beginners.
Review: This book is just great to quickly get a grip of simple to intermediate applications using mySQL and the powerful "web language" PHP. This book is not for beginners in web development or programming, though. If you are a web programmer that really need serious in-depth knowledge about PHP og mySQL, this book is not for you either.
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Summary: Cover to cover, a great book to get you started
Review: This book is not well explained overall. As I It is hard to find a book convined MySQL and PHP, but I recommend to look for another book. Even I have other programming languages and databases knowledge, it is hard to follow this sloppy book.
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Summary: Recommend NOT to buy this book
Review: This book is not well explained overall. As I It is hard to find a book convined MySQL and PHP, but I recommend to look for another book. Even I have other programming languages and databases knowledge, it is hard to follow this sloppy book.
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Summary: Book contains typing errors and not organized
Review: This book is not well organized. Wrox books are better.
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