Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL, 3rd Edition

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Summary: I yearned for more...
Review: This was the first book I bought on PHP and MySQL. Maybe that was my first mistake, but as a newbie I guess I didn't know what to look for. I had read reviews raving about this book, and I like the SitePoint website, so I really expected a lot out of 'Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL'.

What I got was a lot of disappointment. As another reviewer discussed, the book is slim, has no index and is more like a tutorial than a reference book.

I found if I wanted to deviate from examples in the book, I was lost. Wanting to reread any part of the book proves difficult because, as said before, there is no index.

The only thing the book did do was pique my interest in PHP and MySQL even more. I went on to purchasing several other books on these subjects that helped make things click.

The book is now on my top shelf along with other books I rarely, if ever, refer to.

If you have little or no programming experience and are a complete newbie to PHP than this is not the book for you.