Customer Rating:  
Summary: Too much coverage!!!
Comment: As a web developer for nearly 3 years, I know that this book is WAYYY too comprehensive. It is trying to be a reference book/tutorial book in one, which never works. You buy one book as a good solid tutorial, and another as a good solid reference. You do not buy one to serve as both, because you always end up with deficiencies. I still use this book, and even though it delivers solid coverage on this subject, it is just too much. The first couple of chapters teach you how to use way too many different PHP functions at the wrong times, when you don't need it at all. I do like the comprehensiveness of the book, however, but the first couple chapters teach you way more functions than needed, and although it isn't hard, it is really boring and useless and time consuming. This book should have been made as a comprehensive one with lots of PHP/MySQL coverage, but only teaching the applicable functions when needed, instead of trying to teach them all (or a good amount of them in the PHP language) at the beginning, expecting the reader to absorb everything even though he doesn't need it. A pretty good book, but should be revised.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good books for professional web coders
Comment: This book is very practical, it starts from ground zero for php and mysql. Then it goes all the way to web securities, session management api, shopping carts, email list manager and web forum. As a professional Java web developer, I think it is a very practical book for PHP and mySQL. The quality is similar to the Oreily Servlet book, but it covers a lot more complex web applications thant the Servlet book.
I used it to build serveral very convient real-world web utilites
for my websites. Highly recommand it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Book
Comment: This is a very good book and very helpful. I only have one disappointment about it. I found that it didn't walk you through making things from the ground up. Such an example is the Forum chapter. It takes an already made forum and talks about how it works. I personally enjoy working from scratch. Overall, though, this is a great book. It teaches PHP and MySql very very well!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Book
Comment: This is a very good book and very helpful. I only have one disappointment about it. I found that it didn't walk you through making things from the ground up. Such an example is the Forum chapter. It takes an already made forum and talks about how it works. I personally enjoy working from scratch. Overall, though, this is a great book. It teaches PHP and MySql very very well!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best book to get a paycheck :)
Comment: I have been using / writing JavaScript for about 2 years. I am working now for a technical school that needs a bit of help with some of the day to day office apps. The cost of MS SQL 2000 EE or Oracle :( is a bit out of reach. I was asked to create a deluxe intranet with quit a few DB's and keep some kind of budget... A friend told me about PHP. Free, easy to learn, etc.. After purchasing 4 other books on the subject I bought this one.. OPENED ALL THE DOORS! That's about all I can say. If you are looking for what the title of the book says, you will get it! A couple of typo's and a few other small errors but the book delivers. Good luck with your scripting endeavors! Peace!
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