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Title: PHP and MySQL for Dummies with CDROM by Janet Valade ISBN: 0-7645-1650-7 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book for beginners
Comment: This is a great book for someone learning to use PHP and MySQL. It assumes the reader already knows basic HTML. The book is easy to read and understand. The topics it covers gives the reader a good grounding of the basics, enough to create a reasonably sophisticated web application. The stuff it leaves out is not essential to know, and can be left for when the reader steps up to more complicated applications.
Information is well organised and easy to navigate. The two web application examples towards the back of the book are also excellent to learn from. They're very good at demonstrating techniques described in earlier chapters.
One potential difficulty someone might have is with the explanation of relational database design. Someone without any past knowledge of relational databases might find the book's explanation a bit light. Designing relational databases isn't terribly complicated, but has its tricky bits.
Another thing I liked about this book is how it helped me set up the appropriate software on my computer so it all worked cleanly together.
Rating: 3
Summary: Starts good and gets lost in the middle
Comment: Had I written this review whilst reading the first chapters of the book I would have given it 5 stars. The steps how to install MySQL and the PHP installation went very smoothly following the book. I even found setup tips for MySQL that I had previously search for on the web/forums without results. I found I was leaning PHP & MySQL very quickly.
The middle of the book has more general info using various examples, but nothing really useful to tryout. The book gets up to speed in chapter 11. I felt I was leaning something again. Learn you must, you need to know what you're doing so you can correct the mistakes in code. Chapter 12, even more mistakes. This time I took the lazy way and downloaded the corrected code from the author's site only to find it was still incorrect. Maybe the mistakes in the code have actually helped, whilst solving the errors I have found lots of useful info for PHP & MySQL.
My roundup:
The start of the book is good for a PHP beginner, with useful setup info. It's weak in the middle. The last part, the main reason to buy the book tends to go too quickly not explaining details that would help a beginner.
It's a shame the book's wasn't checked a little better.
Rating: 5
Summary: It worked for me!
Comment: I think this book is great purchase for a beginner. You don't have to know how to write programs or know anything about databases. All that information is in the book. There are lots of examples and the language is easy to understand. Some of the other reviews talk about mistakes in the programs and database, but I'm not so sure about that. Maybe that's because I have the second edition which just came out. This book is worth the money!
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours by Julie C. Meloni ISBN: 067232489X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 11 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: PHP/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Andy Harris ISBN: 1931841322 Publisher: Learning Express Pub. Date: 04 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL by David Lane, Hugh E. Williams ISBN: 0596000413 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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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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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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