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Summary: Riddled With Errors
Review: This book is riddled with errors, from nonsense layouts to coding mistakes. The interface (a hotel booking system) is very rudimentary and does not work as advertised. The book does introduce readers to Dreamweaver's server behavior interface and does a good job walking readers through a local install of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and a few other tools. A good idea, poorly executed.
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Summary: Hopefully, better PHP-DWMX books will be written soon!
Review: This book might be okay if you are already a PHP developer who wants to learn to use Dreamweaver MX, but if you want to learn PHP you are better off buying an introductory book on PHP, because you will have virtually no understanding of how to create a website using PHP from this book. The book is written more for someone already proficient in PHP who wants to learn DWMX. If you do buy this book, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by skipping the introductory chapters on installing PHP, MySQL and Apache by downloading a free pre-configured executable like SWAMP from Sourceforge (swamp.sourceforge.net). They were obviously in a real rush to get this book to print, the amount of errata is unacceptable, sometimes entire pages need to be crossed out with the correct text written in by hand. Print out the errata pages from their website before you do anything else. The book has a written by committee feel, with glaring omissions and where some of the pages seem to be in reverse order. Regarding the sample projects there is hardly no explanation of what you are doing or why you are doing it so you aren't really learning anything unless you already know PHP, you're just performing tasks by rote. Half-way through the book I decided I was wasting my time and bought "SAMS Teach yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours". By contrast it is well done. Maybe when I finish it I'll try using this book again to try to learn how to use DWMX with PHP if no other books are available. I give this book 2 stars because there aren't any other books yet incorporating PHP and DWMX, otherwise I'd give it 1 star. This is the first Glasshaus book I've bought or read, and probably the last. Hopefully better books will be available soon.
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Summary: Excellent guide to using Dreamweaver for PHP
Review: This is a great book. Having used the previous version of Dreamweaver for making static pages, I was keen to try out Dreamweaver MX's capability for making PHP sites. This book gave me all the info I needed to get going. While it doesn't have a comprehensive language reference section (if you're looking for that either buy one of the big PHP books, or just use the online manual at php.net), by the end of the book I was able to build my own dyhnamic PHP sites. I really liked the hotel example app that was built up in the book - very helpful to gain tips about how to use Dreamweaver to build real life projects.
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Summary: Immediate Results!
Review: This is an excellent resource for Dreamweaver MX users looking to extend their websites beyond HTML. You can't beat PHP and MySQL for creating DB driven sites at a low cost(free!), and this books helps to make it easy. Highly recommended!
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Summary: PERFECT for learning DW MX to create PHP/MySQL sites
Review: This is literally the book you are looking for if you have a basic handle on how the three pieces of this puzzle look & feel but want to see the completed puzzle itself. The authors take you through the conception, design, & creation of a PHP/MySQL web application using Dreamweaver MX. They cover installation of MySQL & PHP on IIS boxes & Apache - watch that you're using the right version of PHP & the PHP MySQL admin tool they recommend! - and take you by the hand through the whole project. Great stuff and they could easily write another book covering this subject.
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Summary: PERFECT for learning DW MX to create PHP/MySQL sites
Review: This is literally the book you are looking for if you have a basic handle on how the three pieces of this puzzle look & feel but want to see the completed puzzle itself. The authors take you through the conception, design, & creation of a PHP/MySQL web application using Dreamweaver MX. They cover installation of MySQL & PHP on IIS boxes & Apache - watch that you're using the right version of PHP & the PHP MySQL admin tool they recommend! - and take you by the hand through the whole project. Great stuff and they could easily write another book covering this subject.
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Summary: A solid book
Review: This is really a solid book on using Dreamweaver for PHP developing. Following the typical glasshaus approach the authors go straight to the relevant information, assuming the reader already know how to use Dreamweaver. A good amount of space is dedicated to MySQL and database-related topics, a wise choice in my opinion. All in all, a must have for Dreamweaver/PHP developers
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Summary: Excellent guide to PHP/MySQL websites using Dreamweaver
Review: This is the book I've been waiting for. When I used the Dreamweaver PHP tutorials, the sample files ended up throwing exceptions, and I wasn't able to finish the examples. In addition, the instructions and backup material on the Dreamweaver help pages were pretty sketchy. (Nothing against Macromedia, by the way...it's a wonderful product and the addition of PHP scripting support is very welcome). This volume, however, fills in all the blanks. Dreamweaver users will find enough PHP info to round out the included scripts, and newcomers to MySQL and PHP will get all the information they need to find and properly install the files and servers on their local systems. The hotel reservation model works well, is well planned to introduce readers to the software and the underlying PHP/MySQL code, and produces a very nice product. The authors have done a nice job in anticipating the sort of questions that newcomers to either PHP, MySQL, or Dreamweaver might have. More importantly (for this reader), the book delivers on its promise to teach the power of Dreamweaver to produce PHP/MySQL sites easily. I hope the authors will consider another (Volume 2) addition to this fine book.
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Summary: Not Bad but not indepth to take you far.
Review: This was a good start to php but I found that at the end of it I had a working web site but a lot of what was done was not explained. It leads you step by step but doesn't tell you the why behind it. If you want something more advanced to take you deeper this is not the book for you.
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Summary: Not Bad but not indepth to take you far.
Review: This was a good start to php but I found that at the end of it I had a working web site but a lot of what was done was not explained. It leads you step by step but doesn't tell you the why behind it. If you want something more advanced to take you deeper this is not the book for you.
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