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Title: Beginning PHP4 by Chris Lea, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman ISBN: 1-86100-373-0 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 02 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (46 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Informative
Comment: I am a complete beginner and found the book fairly easy to read and apply. However, some of the scripts I downloaded don't seem to work. Maybe its my lack of understanding, I don't know...
You must know how to read html to get anywhere with PHP. You can use Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor to write your scripts in.
The book has a good Appendix for all the PHP functions and the authors do a great job at explaining PHP at the beginning of the book.
Each chapter starts off with a real basic script as it develops and adds more functions to the script until you end up with a fairly advanced script. Every time they add more stuff to a script they break each line down with explanations.
Over all its a good place to start with a lot of Reference material for advanced users. However, if you have never programmed or want to get an easier start with php, I recommend "Php : Your Visual Blueprint for Creating Open Source, Server-Side Content" ISBN: 0764535617. Then move to the PHP Cookbook.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book fo newbie PHPers
Comment: This book is well written with the absolute beginner in mind. If you already are at an intermediate level, then this book will seem very simple to you. Then again, they would've named it Intermediate PHP. Some people may be put off by the repetition in the lessons, but for me, it's perfect. It helps things to sink in better if it's repeated several times.
Yes, this book has errors and typos just like any other book does, but if you go to the Wrox website, they have a very good eratta. I printed it out, then cut each page's eratta into strips and inserted them into the apropiate pages. No more problem!
If you're a complete newbie to programming or PHP, get this book! You won't regret it. By the end of this book, you'll be writing some fairly advanced and useful scripts.
Rating: 3
Summary: It Gets The Job Done, But It's Nothing Special
Comment: If you've been programming for a while, the pace of this book is too slow to read cover to cover. The best thing to do is read the first half of the book (through chapter 9) and then skip around to what interests you. As others have mentioned, you will have to modify the code in the examples to get them to work because of the use of globals. This is not impossible to overcome if you write the message board for the book at http://p2p.wrox.com. However, it is annoying. There are other errors too, but it doesn't take much in the way of trial and error to get around them. The three chapters on MySQL are the most useful. If you've worked with databases in other scripting languages, e.g. Perl, Python, or Ruby, it's simply a matter of looking up what you want to do. There are some good style examples on structuring PHP code - use of an "$action" variable to drive the behavior of the site from a single page. The book also stresses putting reusable code in include files. The author dismisses classes/objects as not really being useful in PHP, but the use of classes elimates the need for the "global" declarations in many of the common include files. All in all, this is an adequate book, but noting profound. If you have programming experience, this book will get you up and running quickly.
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Title: Professional PHP4 Programming by Deepak Thomas, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, James Moore, et al ISBN: 1861006918 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 17 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Beginning PHP4 Databases by Andrew Hill, Chris Lea, Christopher Scollo, Deepak Thomas, Harish Rawat ISBN: 1861007825 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 26 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: MySQL, Second Edition by Paul DuBois ISBN: 0735712123 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson ISBN: 067232525X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide by Larry Ullman ISBN: 0321186486 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 21 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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