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Summary: A guide for setting up a development platform
Review: Maxfield did a good job of explaining how to set up and integrate MySQL, Apache, and PHP, creating a development platform under UNIX. But Appendix A, which is more than half the book, is not much more helpful than the PHP Manual.
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Summary: Get Abriasoft Instead
Review: Since reading (and returning) this book, I discovered a miracle product that makes this book redundant -- there's no reason to spend a day or more installing PHP and MySQL when you can buy software that does it automatically in less than 10 minutes. There's a company called Abriasoft (.com for their website) that makes a CD that will install MySQL, PHP, Apache, and other such programs on your computer within 5 minutes. Awesome! It will install in either Windows or Linux. I'm a beginner in PHP, and could no more install these programs myself than fly, but it was a cinch with Abriasoft. I know I probably sound like an ad, but I have no connection with ABriasoft except for eternal gratitude!
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Summary: Whoops i thought it was a programing book!
Review: Suddenly i realized after reading the first 20 pages of this non-sense that the only good use of it would be kindling for a fire! This is THE worst book I have ever read. I wasted my [money] on this fire-starter when i could have gotten a wood log for [less], what a [waste]!
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Summary: Great reference for PHP
Review: This book could not possibly be better for simply looking up syntax. If you already know how to program this is perfect. The only weak point is the printf format syntax, though even that is decent.
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Summary: Can I give it ZERO stars?
Review: This book is an absolute waste of both your time and your money. It basically contains the PHP and MySql manuals available for free from their websites.There is virtually no actual content from the author to help you learn PHP or MySQL. If you are looking for a good book on PHP and MySql check out PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
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Summary: Can I give it ZERO stars?
Review: This book is an absolute waste of both your time and your money. It basically contains the PHP and MySql manuals available for free from their websites. There is virtually no actual content from the author to help you learn PHP or MySQL. If you are looking for a good book on PHP and MySql check out PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
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Summary: MySQL and PHP From Scratch
Review: This book is not very helpful. It spends one third of its content to cover specific installations, almost other two thirds for an appendix of PHP term listing. I don't think it delivers the purpose as its titile says.
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Summary: Disappointment!!
Review: This book was a major disappointment. I had expected to gain some knowledge on how to administrer a site with a bunch of users in the form of a mailhotel, and perhaps get to know some of the tricks of MySQL. All it does is to show how Maxfield solved _one_ particular problem. I can't think of any group to which this book should give any benifit. Experienced programmers won't learn anything new. New programmers wont get the point, and the appendix is not better than Core PHP Programming... I wish I could have my money back...
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Summary: And the point is?
Review: This has to be the worst programming book I have ever read. The code will be over the head of a novice without explanation, and for the experienced PHP coder a waste of time. I purchased this book thinking it would be good for some help on a project I am working on, and it was... it helped keep a number of papers from blowing around on my desk. If you are looking for a book to help you with PHP and/or MySQL, this is the last book I would ever recommend to you. There are other books available on Amazon that would be a much better place for people at any level of experience. I wish I could actually charge the author for having read this one, because it did waste alot of time, so dont waste yours.
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Summary: $23.99 for a free php manual,are you stupid ?
Review: Yes,247 pages out of 347 pages of this lame book is a complete reprint of php manual,which you can find on php.net for free. The first 111 pages about mysql ,php ,apache and imp are just reprints of their installation manuals,which are also freely available online. I have no ideas why QUE publishes this kind of "book".
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