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Summary: Infintely Useful resource
Review: I am an experienced Dreamweaver user and with the release of Dreamweaver MX I was inspired to take advantage of the new server capabilities (and my expensive DSL) and set up a web server. I needed to know PHP fast and this book is hands down the most complete introductory crash course available. I am, as i type this, buying the follow-up to this book called Advanced PHP Web Developement.The biggest strengths of this book are that it gets you initiated into the exclusive and close-knit PHP club pretty quickly. And even better, it tells you how to do this using the provided Dreamweaver MX tools. After mastering this book and devouring sections of it, you will be thirsting for more knowledge and scouring php bulletin boards for answers to your questions. This book is a must-have for people looking to dive head first into the world of open source web developement and server-side scripting without drowning. You will however find that this book is really only good for beginners and that you will very quickly find the plateau, leaving you grasping for more. But that is why I am buying the advanced php book: because I am ready for it now.
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Summary: from zero to 60 in 1 weekend.
Review: I devoted a weekend to reading this book and building the tutorial. I started with no knowledge of PHP or any other web application languages besides HTML. It explains everything clearly and simply.
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Summary: Great Resource for Dreamweaver Users
Review: I have been using Dreamweaver for over 3 years and more recently Dreamweaver MX. I consider myself an expert in Dreamweaver, but I have never used its dynamic features. This book was a great resource for me. After reading through it, and its examples, I was creating PHP MySQL dynamic pages in two days. I never knew how easy Dreamweaver MX makes PHP MySQL development until this book explained it to me. This has unleashed a whole new aspect of Dreamweaver MX for me. I can't wait to start using it on my web sites.
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Summary: Keep Looking
Review: I haven't finished the book yet -- and probably won't. It is absolutely the most dreadful development/learning book I've come across yet (in almost 30 years of playing with computers). Some instructions are missing steps. Others are plain flat-out wrong. Finally, the authors make way too many assumptions about users' abilities and machine-specific setups. Do yourself a favor and find another book.
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Summary: Keep Looking
Review: I haven't finished the book yet -- and probably won't. It is absolutely the most dreadful development/learning book I've come across yet (in almost 30 years of playing with computers). Some instructions are missing steps. Others are plain flat-out wrong. Finally, the authors make way too many assumptions about users' abilities and machine-specific setups. Do yourself a favor and find another book.
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Summary: 6-8 Pages per Chapter to Explain what's PHP would be GREAT!
Review: I tend to agree with the review given by "Rover". Considering the fact that you're using a WYSIWYG editor (even though it's the best) to develop server-side scripting of database backed web sites, should indicate that you can't know everything about PHP scripting or MySQL. (just a general concencus that I've gathered from talking to other web designers). Therefore, my headline comment of 6-8 pages more per chapter to explain the intracacies of what's going on when you "click this or ,select that or type in this" would have pushed this book to the highest level. All in all, it's a great walk through of the potential that Dreamweaver MX has built into it's base pertaining to open-source scripting and SQL implementation (i.e. PHP & MySQL). Bottom line - I thorougly enjoyed it, learned a great deal of what Dreamweaver MX can really do but would have liked a little more "fyi pertainging to what's going on behind the "WYSIWYG scene" for a total learning experience. I have to say BUY IT FOR SURE! Then pursue answers to PHP-MySQL basics from another source. This book is definitely worth the investment.
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Summary: 6-8 Pages per Chapter to Explain what's PHP would be GREAT!
Review: I tend to agree with the review given by "Rover". Considering the fact that you're using a WYSIWYG editor (even though it's the best) to develop server-side scripting of database backed web sites, should indicate that you can't know everything about PHP scripting or MySQL. (just a general concencus that I've gathered from talking to other web designers). Therefore, my headline comment of 6-8 pages more per chapter to explain the intracacies of what's going on when you "click this or ,select that or type in this" would have pushed this book to the highest level. All in all, it's a great walk through of the potential that Dreamweaver MX has built into it's base pertaining to open-source scripting and SQL implementation (i.e. PHP & MySQL). Bottom line - I thorougly enjoyed it, learned a great deal of what Dreamweaver MX can really do but would have liked a little more "fyi pertainging to what's going on behind the "WYSIWYG scene" for a total learning experience. I have to say BUY IT FOR SURE! Then pursue answers to PHP-MySQL basics from another source. This book is definitely worth the investment.
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Summary: Good Book on PHP development
Review: I think this book is a good buy. I sure did open my eyes to a world of development I never thought possible without Dreamweaver. PHP is so powerful and this book let's you harness those great features of PHP.
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Summary: Good book and good people
Review: I would like to thank the people at Glasshaus. Not just for a well written and very helpful book, but for all the support they provided when I messed up my source code and couldn't figure out where. They saved me countless hours of frustration and taught me a few things in the process. Thanks.
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Summary: Someone should check the code
Review: I'm very disappointed with this book. For someone just starting their journey in PHP, it simply has too many mistakes in the code presented on the pages of the book. Learning to program is hard enough without the help of wrongly printed code in a book that is suppose to be teaching the subject. After 3 day of frustation I go to the site only to find out they no longer support the book. They do however have an Errata page where you will find many corrections to the code which after some more time got the basic booking system to work. Then After a day on chaper 9 with a list of the corrections from the website in hand, I could not get the admin section to work so I download the code pages for chapter 9 from the site, and find they doesn't work either. I like the explanations on the subject and the layout of the book but damn I think a programming book should spend whatever time it takes to get the code right. I make my share of typos not to mention spelling but I don't write or sell books. This book is about teaching code and it seem to me someone could have spent more time making sure at least the code was correct. It's obvious these guys know what they are doing I just wish it had been better edited.
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