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Summary: Not Worth It
Comment: My background - a little bit of perl, BASIC language, html.This book in the first 2 or 3 chapters walks you through as to 'what is PHP?', after that it becomes confusing, like what one reviewer have posted, the book becomes more of theoritical in its approach. I would highly recommend 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' for those who are looking for that 'step by step' approach. Nothing like PHP for Dummies but just an indepth guide to proper PHP scripting. The authors of 'Web Database Application' may be experts in PHP scripting but should need to develop their teaching ability. Needless to say, this book is gathering dust.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Worth It
Comment: My background - a little bit of perl, BASIC language, html.This book in the first 2 or 3 chapters walks you through as to 'what is PHP?', after that it becomes confusing, like what one reviewer have posted, the book becomes more of theoritical in its approach. I would highly recommend 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' for those who are looking for that 'step by step' approach. Nothing like PHP for Dummies but just an indepth guide to proper PHP scripting. The authors of 'Web Database Application' may be experts in PHP scripting but should need to develop their teaching ability. Needless to say, this book is gathering dust.
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Summary: Educational, NOT merely instructional! Great Book.
Comment: This is an EXCELLENT book for an intermediate programmer, likely the best PHP/MYSQL combo book out there. Intermediate programmers have programmed successfully before, but now want to write code and use techniques that are more fundamentally sound. This requires that someone share with them the various OPTIONS, explain their strengths and weaknesses, and then recommend a good way. That's what this book does (more often than not) on subjects ranging from sessions to MySQL locking to regular expressions.This book provides an EDUCATION as opposed to mere instructional advice as to one way something can be done (without context). From another angle, it has been my observation that the inability to understand a programming explanation in a book normally results from the author simply omitting one or two explicit references to minor elements in the causal link that comprises understanding. (think about that one a bit) The authors of this book tend NOT to make this error in their explanations/tutorials which makes for easy, informative reading. They are much better educators than the average techie author.
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Summary: would be a great textbook
Comment: A thorough and well-written cookbook for building a web shopping cart using PHP and MySQL. The authors assume some programming background but also cover fundamentals of database design and software engineering. A great choice for someone relatively new to applications programming. If you're an experienced programmer looking for a more streamlined reference manual, I recommend O'Reilly's "Programming PHP" instead.
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Summary: Good book but it's only for Unix/Linux users
Comment: This book is excelent for Unix/Linux users, it explains everything for the Unix/Linux users. For other operating system users it will be a pain in the head.
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