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Format: Paperback
Author: Elizabeth Naramore
ReleaseDate: 04 February, 2005
Publisher: Wrox
Rating:

Accurate and easy to understand, but ineffective
The book is written in a comfortable, informal tone and is easy to understand. I almost gave it two stars, but that wouldn't quite be fair. It is well edited. The trouble is that it, like many programming books, doesn't TEACH YOU THE LANGUAGE. To use metaphor, it teaches you how to say, "Where's the bathroom" in PHP, but not what "Where's," "the" and "bathroom" mean and how to use them in other sentences. It uses the tools of PHP to make a jig for you to perform one very specific task, but it doesn't give you the tools.

Put directly, this book gives you complete code for a specific task and then loosely explains what the code does IN THAT CONTEXT. I want a book that teaches me the specifics of the function and syntax of various commands, allows me to use them to solve problems on my own, and THEN talks about broader programming techniques.

Good Beginning Book
This book is a good beginning book for PHP and MySQL. I'm about half way through this and have browsed the remaining half already. They cover the basics quickly, yet effectively. The numerous examples give you the opportunity to apply the knowledge and practice writing code.

For those who have complained. . . you can download the code from the Wrox website. However, I have found that typing in the expamples helps me to digest and remeber the lessons. I even went so far and creating new files every time rather than just modifying.

I too had typos with the code. . . However, they have thus far, always been on my end. The code in the book hasn't seemed flawed yet - although a few times I was convinced it was, only to finally see the missing quote mark or semicolon in MY code.

I do wish that they would have gone into a bit more description about the details of conecting from PHP to MySQL, although I can do it, I don't entirely understand some of the code.

With this book you learn good, practial information about how to use PHP in conjunction with MySQL - The Apche piece is really only relevent for getting you PHP going. They cover what the book claims.

Wrox (your f***ed if your) Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySql Web Development (with this book)

I created several pages just as they said in the book and all worked, but had nasty looking error codes all over them. This book right from the very beginning contradticts itself, it is full of different code for different things and typos.

If you are a beginner, which with a title like this books i presume so, don't even think about getting this. Its difficult to follow at the best of times.
However all the code does work, just not well.