Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great PHP / MySQL book...
Comment: This book has a wealth of great information about PHP, MySQL, SQL, and web site backend design. It has some great PHP / MySQL example projects that will show you how to put what you've learned in the book to use in the real web development world. If you want to learn PHP / MySQL development you can't go wrong with this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: i knew nothing, i got this book, now i'm a pro!
Comment: i got promoted in work. i knew nothing about PHP and had to learn fast.this book totally brought me up to speed and saved me from a lot of stress. i normally hate computer books as they are too dry or have too many errors. not this book, it really is very good. if you are new to PHP i highly recommend this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome book
Comment: This is the best php/mysql book I have found. It covers everything with great practical examples, from the standard shopping cart to message boards. It would serve beginners well and take intermediate web programmers to the next level. The best part is the software enginerring approach to web developement. A must for any serious web developer.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good referance!
Comment: It really helps out beginners, but at first when you open the book it looks overwhelming! Read a little and you will not be able to stop practicing your scripts
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Summary: I change my mind
Comment: Yes, the book helped me with my first few contracts in PHP and MySQL, but what it didn't provide me with were good coding techniques. I've learned so much since from other books and developers, and looking back on this book and the code they provide as examples... well, I can't believe that people actually paid me for that early work.
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I owe my last 3 contracts to this book. It's that simple. I picked it up after setting up my BSD development platform and I was ready to go. If you're not a programmer, don't worry. The first 150 pgs are dedicated to you. It teaches you the basics of strings, variables, functions... everything. Even if you're a programming whiz, it's also good to have a refresher from time to time... hell, it corrected a few of my bad practices.
It walks you through the installation process of mysql and php on both *nix and windows systems in the appendix, and learning mysql from command line was simple after reading this book. For the more advanced people, you ever built your own shopping cart from scratch? Well, you will about 1/3 of the way through the book. It also provides insightful reading about security, best practices, etc. that are well written and necessary if you are to take what you learn in this book seriously.
I highly recommend it.
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