Rating: 
Summary: Code examples need work.
Review: This book looked promising from the reviews. The code examples were buggy, I stopped trying to work through this book and picked up PHP Essentials by Julie Meloni and had a much better experience.There are better beginner books, get one of those instead.
Rating: 
Summary: clear and easy to understand
Review: This is my first review. I don't normaly write them except that I found this book to be exactly what I was looking for. I needed to learn php and I had to do it on my own.I am a complete beginner in this area.
The chapters were clear and concise. The code was explained without 'over explaining" it.
There are small quizes in each section to help reinforce the learning.
I didn't find any problems with the source code.
If you're looking for a place to start with php I don't think you can find a better book.
Rating:
Summary: Book Needs To Rewrite
Review: This is my first time to write the review. I hate to write some bad comments. But, I decide to do it. WHY? Because I saw a viewer giving this book "FIVE STARS" and very positive comments, then I bought this book---SO STUPID. The result is I am really disappointed buying this book after I read it. This book is not like others' same series(A Beginner's Guide) book when compared with "javascript: A beginner's guide". I am really impressive the author always using this sentence--"SPEND SOME TIME STUDYING THE PHP SCRIPT", when he dump the codes without any explanations. Well, that's funny. I think I need to write php codes rather than study/research them. Please explain them clearly. For example, he used "Trim()" function in pp.142, however, he never explain what this function do at the first time using. I got to search somewhere else. In Chap 11, I don't think he needs to explain so many junks about UNIX.
The author always separated the PHP code and HTML code into two files from beginning to end of book. This is sort of misleading concept for beginner, actually PHP codes usually mixed with HTML codes. IF YOU NEED PHP BOOK, GO TO OTHERS. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME.
Rating:
Summary: Book Needs To Rewrite
Review: This is my first time to write the review. I hate to write some bad comments. But, I decide to do it. WHY? Because I saw a viewer giving this book "FIVE STARS" and very positive comments, then I bought this book---SO STUPID. The result is I am really disappointed buying this book after I read it. This book is not like others' same series(A Beginner's Guide) book when compared with "javascript: A beginner's guide". I am really impressive the author always using this sentence--"SPEND SOME TIME STUDYING THE PHP SCRIPT", when he dump the codes without any explanations. Well, that's funny. I think I need to write php codes rather than study/research them. Please explain them clearly. For example, he used "Trim()" function in pp.142, however, he never explain what this function do at the first time using. I got to search somewhere else. In Chap 11, I don't think he needs to explain so many junks about UNIX.
The author always separated the PHP code and HTML code into two files from beginning to end of book. This is sort of misleading concept for beginner, actually PHP codes usually mixed with HTML codes. IF YOU NEED PHP BOOK, GO TO OTHERS. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME.
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