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Summary: Easy as pie!
Review: I picked up this book and had a databased web page within a few hours. It is easy to read, easy to understand, easy to work through.
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Summary: PHP for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide
Review: I wouldn't recommend this book. The Visual Quickstart series is usually great but this book is a dog. The author should have used more concise examples to illustrate the coding principles-- it took forever to type in the code for very little return. Also his website has been pulled down, so there aren't in depth answers for coding questions. Bottom line, this book is fluff and you can do better.
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Summary: A gentle start
Review: I'm not completely through it yet, but so far this book makes learning PHP painless.Yes it has mistakes; the errata on the author's web site is as long as my arm (better get another proofreader), but at least it is there and is helpful. This author shares a habit with other authors of scripting language books; he tears HTML to shreds! HTML 4.01 has been around a long time. These scripting gurus really should make an attempt to follow the standard if they are going to use HTML. Larry, is a container tag! Use a </P>. But I'm not really complaining much. Nobody else I have found has made php so clear. Great job.
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Summary: A great book for first time php user
Review: I've gone through several php books, but this one is easy for the beginner php'er and not so technical user. The examples were easy to follow and definitely worth while, unlike some other books that include examples that you would never use in a real life situation. I probably would not recommend this book for someone who has some background in php, since the contents covered within this book are very basic. But for a beginner like myself, it has helped immensely
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Summary: Were the editors paying attention?
Review: I've gotten about half-way through this book and have found several errors that a simple proof-read should have cought. Enough so that I went out and bought the O'Reilly /Programming PHP/ book. PHP for the WWW is certainly more suited for the beginning programmer (me) but such obvious errors leave me distrusting the book to a certain degree. Will I discard/sell this book because of the errors? Of course not, but I'm not comfortable relying on it. My other complaint with this book is that some of the graphics are too small. They've taken screen caps of Netscape's View HTML Source and with the combination of window background, font and text highlighting, it is difficult if not impossible to read many of these graphics. Again, I would attribute this to poor editing - this should have been noticed immediately and corrected.
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Summary: Good Starting point.
Review: If you need a run off point to help you leap into the world of PHP, you just found it. I read it and got a good handle of what is going on in the world of PHP, not to say that I am now a programmer. However I can now write minor scripts and understand the languge when looking at it. If you want in on the ground level, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Excellent Learning Tool
Review: If you want to get started on becoming a PHP programmer, this is the book for you. Larry Ullman explains every php code he writes, and what the codes accomplish. Larry's writting style is so unique, that everything he writes gets stuck in your head, for days and days.
I highly recommend this book for beginning programmers, or just programmers who want a better understanding on how codes are executed.
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Summary: If you're new to PHP - this book is for you.
Review: If you're new to PHP, read this book. If you'll follow the examples in order, you will be using PHP in your own applications in a very short time. After only 2 days, I was coding PHP while glancing back at this quick-start guide for help. In a week, I was writing my own first simple application in PHP. I've read plenty of PHP books by now, but this is book is the one I always return to for a reference. Overall, this book is the fastest solid PHP foundation you'll find - assuming you're lazy like me and prefer to learn visually instead of plowing through endless code.
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Summary: Great book for beginning PHP programming!
Review: In less than a month's time I was up and running with a MySQL/PHP web site after reading this book. It just took a couple of hours a day. I have a very busy schedule, so the fact that I could learn this so fast and so easily is a testament to the value of the book. Easy to read, good screen shots. I now have a good handle on how to write PHP web applications and I've purchased a professional-level PHP book (also by Larry Ullman). I can't wait to dig into that one.
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Summary: wait for 2nd edition due 1/2004
Review: just a quick addition to my review. i noticed that the badly needed 2nd edition i said was needed is indeed coming out in january of 2004. do yourself a favor and wait for it if you can.
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