PHP and MySQL Web Development

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Summary: Well Written and Hard to Stop Reading
Review: Being a productive web developer, I am constantly buying new books and looking through information online to better myself and make my online applications better. This is the first book that I have run across which reads easily and doesn't bore you to death. It is VERY well written and covers information easily and with great examples to help you understand something when you need it. That was the greatest thing - EVERY time that you get to a point where you are about to scratch your head and think, "huh?!", you are given a more detailed explanation, graph, diagram, image, etc. The authors and the publisher did a great job with this book and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone thinking about using PHP 4 and MySQL for web development. I cannot say enough good things about it.

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Summary: great book!!
Review: I really looked around before buying a php/mysql book, and bought this one based on: Amazon reviews! I have to say, it was a great book! For someone who knows nothing about either, but wants to jump right in working on web sites with php and mysql, this is the perfect book! It's well organized, it�s easy to understand, and the examples are very useful and straightforward. I really recommend this book to anyone interested in php/mysql web development!

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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: The more pages that a computer book has the less value it seems to have and this book is no exception. The authors try to cover too many topics and as a result almost nothing is covered adequately. I've had problems making sessions work properly and the chapter on sessions was of absolutely no help. You can find better information on the Internet. To be fair, I did get a couple of ideas from this book that I've used in my web design. The most positive thing that I can say is that I'm very grateful that I got the book from the library rather than buying it.

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Summary: good book
Review: PHP and MySQL web development is a good book that covers many aspecs of PHP and MySQL in simple, easy to understand instructions. But the reality is, that PHP is a scripting laguage with limits, and ASP.NET is taking over!