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Summary: I highly recommend this book
Review: If you ever read a book from Peachpit Press, then you know what the wonderful Visual QuickPro Guides are like. PHP Advanced Visual QuickPro Guide uses pictures rather than lengthy explanations. You'll be learning the more advanced features of PHP no time!" Larry Ullman's book on PHP is a great place to start when you are looking to advance your skills.PHP is such a hot topic on the web now, that there are so many books out there on the subject, and so many of them make it more complicated then it really is. This book does a great job at teaching you the advanced use of PHP scripting. The author explains all the code that he has written, and goes through it in a language that anyone can understand.
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Summary: Worthwhile
Review: This book has been quite useful in helping me to wrap my head around OOP. Like one of the earlier reviewers, I was initially suspicious of this series, as it has carried some lightweight books in the past, with loads of annoying, useless pictures of dialog boxes. While some of those are still there, and still annoying, the layout of the series has been refined since I first looked at it. I was swayed by a comparison of this book and O'Reilley's offering. For one thing, it was cheaper. But more importantly, it's more balanced, more approachable, and less boring. The design of the Html template classes are indeed a bit odd, but I presume Ullman designed them primarily as a teaching tool, not for a real site, and they do make his points clearly. After all, there is plenty of open source code on the web to emulate or build on -- the important thing is grasping the concepts. I think this book will help there. One thing that I consider a serious drawback is that the entire book is littered with ugly table layouts. My eyes crossed from sifting through seas of <tr>'s and <td>'s. A book on web design should have up to date design, and table layouts are not are
straight out of the 90s. If only someone would come out with a book on PHP/MySql that used decent CSS, now that would be something I'd pay to read.
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Summary: Good book - I recommend it.
Review: This is the fourth web site design and/or development book that I have purchased that was published by Peachpit Press. All four books are good books. The "PHP Advanced For The World Wide Web" (written by Larry Ullman) has a lot of good information. All of the sample scripts for the book can be downloaded from the web site.... I have tested about all of the sample scripts and they work good. Also if you have a question the DMC Insights web site has a message board where you can get answers. If you are a beginner like myself it will take longer for you to learn the material in this book. I recommend purchasing the first book on this topic (published by Peachpit Press and also written by Larry Ullman) entitled "PHP For The World Wide Web" which is a visual quick start guide and more of an entry level book and then use the first book as a reference manual. I recommend starting from the beginning of this book and studying each of the chapters. In recommend studying the material and examples as though you were studying for a collegiate level examination. That is the type of study that it will take to learn this programming language. The examples in the book build on themselves so you really need to start at the beginning. Also as you progress through the book you need to go back periodically and review the earlier chapters. The material in the earlier chapters will become more clear to you after you have studied the book for a while. I hope that this review helps. Regards; H. Pete Norris, MAI
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Summary: Larry is the man
Review: When you think of technical writers, Larry is the man. This book is well designed and laid out. This reminds me raising alpacas and the ease associated with it. Woogie. Go out buy this book!
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