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Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: Only through the beginning of this book, but so far so good. Excellent explanations and the other reviewers are on the money when they say that this is a good book. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Not for novice...
Comment: This book shouldn't be advertised as "from novice to professional", since it start assuming that you have pretty complex knowledge of C++, HTML, etc. The book doesn't even have an ordered structure: when you are in the first chapters, it start using functions that will be explained later, just as if you should know them before.
Sometimes very complex, other times it just seems like a big appendix of functions descriptions instead as a guide to use them in real program environment.
After reading the whole book, and having it at sight, I tried to create a simple program and it was just impossible, because I learned useless and too complex functions but I couldn't make the simplest program without looking for help at php forums.
It may be a good option for not-novice, but if you're looking for a novice book, DON'T buy this book.
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Summary: Great Book
Comment: I really enjoyed reading through the book. It's not only good for someone just learning PHP, but it serves as a great reference material as well. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone getting started with PHP.
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Summary: Excellent book for those new to PHP and MySQL
Comment: First, let me say this book DOES NOT teach programming. So, if you are unfamiliar with general programming constructs and how they work, this book may not be for you.
This is my first book on PHP and MySQL. I have read many other books ranging from simple web development to game programming with OpenGL and C++. For anyone with some understanding of programming this is an excellent book. It is one of the easiest reads for a technical book that one can find.
The book is full of short examples. The book does not unnecessarily spend a long time on particular commands and gets straight to the point. For example, the chapter on arrays does not go over what an array is and how it operates, but discusses a huge plethora of array functions. This makes the book a great reference, as the chapters are independent and well organized. This also means the 913 pages are packed with a wealth of information; especially since, there is not an appendix.
The author is also very approachable, and he has responded to my e-mail. He also has a new site for the book that I recommend you visit before making your decision. [...]
This book is definitely a good choice if you are looking for a book to learn PHP and use it with the MySQL database.
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Summary: Outstanding guide for experienced programmers
Comment: I found this to be a very helpful guide in getting into the intense details of configuration, performance tuning and eventually programming PHP web applications. It spends a lot of time on the settings and config, and eventually gets into data access and DB progrmaming. if you're moving over from another platform (like I did), you'll find this very helpful.
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