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Summary: I put the rest down!
Comment: I have a bunch of PHP books and I have to say I have not picked the others up since this one has arrived. What I like about this book is that the examples are in digestable chunks and clearly explained. I am not a programmer by any means, but with this book I am able to create usable web interfaces that help me automate my job.
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Summary: Great Book!
Comment: This book is great!
Altough its 1st edition and there are a couple(about 10) code
mistakes(In the whole 738 pages) - This book is the right one
for you if your'e already know PHP in the mid-expert way.
This book looks a bit like a refrence book only its alot better.
This book covers all of PHP5's newest including SQLite, Advanced OOP, New ERROR handle and much more!
Uri.
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Summary: Excellent Resource for a PHP Novice
Comment: I am not a programmer, although I have dabbled in programming, primarily in Visual Basic. Having developed a number of websites using FrontPage, I needed a resource to help me see and understand the world outside of Microsoft. This book was a lucky find, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to PHP beginners. Hopefully, in a not-too-distant future, I will be able to write an advanced user's review of the same book :)
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Summary: Best PHP/MySQL Book I've Read
Comment: I have been learning PHP/MySQL so I can program a web-based application that I am working on. I have read through a number of PHP/MySQL books and their sample codes and found this book to be the best by far. This book is great if you know even just the basics of HTML. If you want to learn how to create a MySQL database and use PHP to integrate your database with your web site then this is the one book to own. The author also covers helpful topics such as object oriented programming, SMARTY, function classes and other key sub-topics that help make a programmer's life much easier. I have compared the solutions in this book to others and have found this book to have far superior code. In fact, I am customizing code directly from the companion web site right after reading the book. Here's an example of how much more is in this book than in others: Most other books show you how to display on your web page a list of records pulled from your MySQL database using PHP. While most other books provide little additional detail from there, this book goes on to show you exactly how to add clickable links to each record line, break the list of records into multiple pages and put clickable page numbers at the bottom of each page that link to the pages. The bottom line is that the author helps you create all the cool stuff you see on other web sites that you wish you had on yours.
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Summary: A great book for anyone wanting to learn PHP 5 and MySql
Comment: I have well over 25 books on computer programming languages, from C, Perl, Python, Java. I have to give credit to Mr. Gilmore, this book was excellently written, everything is precise and to the point with code snippets to show. Definately enough in this book to get you a web server up and running with apache, PHP, and MySql loaded, and the ability to create a webpage using them all. A+
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