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Title: PHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution by Chris Lea, Mike Buzzard, Dilip Thomas, Jessey White-Cinis ISBN: 1-59059-150-X Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 09 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book, great topic, great team behind it
Comment: (This review is of the Wrox Press 2002 edition)
This book gives you a thorough course in building a PHP-MySQL website, working up a complete system in stages. The book contains lots of useful code and techniques that can be used in your own websites. As a previous reviewer said, it is not for complete beginners in PHP/MySQL, but in combination with a good fast intro to these topics (I used SAMS "Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours"), I reckon this book should be all you need to get your cool interactive database-driven site out onto the web. And when I contacted the authors to find the download code (which is available from Apress now that Wrox no longer publish it), they were extremely helpful. So go on - the software cost you nothing after all: why not splash out a few pennies on this excellent book?
Rating: 1
Summary: Another USELESS Book on PHP
Comment: It appears as if most of the earlier reviews for this book were for the first edition. (Which brings up a good question - WHY is this book now useless?)
As with essentially every other book I've spent $40 - $50 for, this one is filled with poor content and code that does NOT work. If you look at the "sample" website for this book that uses the code that this book is supposed to help you build (http://apress.mediatemple.net/site/news/), many people hit a roadblock by page 28! The site is filed with comments from others who have been stuck on the same problem and can't move on. Perhaps the most revealing question there is "has anyone been successful in getting all the way through the book?" Not surprisingly, no one has answered.
The publisher's site (http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=200) also does NOT include an errata sheet (that would be asking too much).
Don't bother buying this one - unless you enjoy throwing another $50 down the toilet. I bought this book based upon the positive reviews found here - little did I realize that the second edition must be worse than the first!
Rating: 2
Summary: Maybe Not So Hot...
Comment: I know all of the other reviews are glowing, but I was actully disappointed by this book. While it is very thorough, I found the structure of the book to be haphazard and unintuitive. There are a lot of occurances of "but first, lets go back a bit," a sure sign of poor writing. While trying to keep to the problem-design-solution framework, the authors often introduced ideas in the problem phase, but never clearly addressed them in the design and solution phase -- often vaguely tying it all together with a statement like "and we took care of this problem as well" without really referencing it.
There is a great deal of information in this book, but I found it very difficult to extract coherently. And saying "but its not for beginners" is no excuse for poor writing.
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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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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: 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: 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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