Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)

click here for more details, find new or used items	W. Jason Gilmore Our price £30.99 New from £17.20 Used from £17.20 Pages: 913 (Paperback) ISBN: 1590595521 Pub: APRESS Pub date: 2006-01-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 90993

Reader Reviews:

Too Simplistic (0/0 people found this helpful)

While the title suggests "novice to professional" for PHP and MySQL 5, it barely gets out of the novice. Few good examples about how to do things. MySQL not covered until well into the back part of the book, and then only superficially. It's thickness (almost 4.5 cm) suggests a lot of value. It's not.

Not impressed (4/4 people found this helpful)

I've read a few excellent PHP and MySQL books a few years back, and bought this to get up to speed with version 5.

I have found a LOT of errors throughout the book including output not matching code snippets, cut and paste errors on whole sections, and not just in the beginner chapters. This makes working out what is going on if you are a beginner very difficult. Even some function names are wrong in the later chapters, so I wouldn't even use it as a reference, as I just don't trust what I'm reading. It doesn't even cover GD.

Where was the technical editor for this book???

Proably good if you get past the learning curve (4/4 people found this helpful)

As an experienced HTML'er, CSS'er and with some experience with Cold Fusion, I had hoped to move over to PHP and mySQL with this book, however it assumes that you have a fair amount of programming understanding, whizzing through the basics.

I would have liked to have seen more exercises during the first chapters to explain the fundamentals better.

Agreed - not for beginners (9/9 people found this helpful)

I'm still a bit of a noob with PHP and I would have to agree with another reviewer that this is not a book for complete beginners. I feel it gets into too much detail too soon and is overwhelming for someone just starting out.

That said, such is the depth of coverage, I can see this becoming a fantastic 'bible' or reference book for those that have nailed the basics - which is why I still give it four stars.

Jolly Good! (7/8 people found this helpful)

The title says it all. This book is incredibly well structured and is more than useful for novices and intermediate php programmers alike.

It takes you through the ABC's of PHP, MySQL and once read, you will be designing PHP and MySQL database driven websites like there is no tomorrow. Personally I started this book with absolutely no knowledge of PHP and after 3 months, there isn't much I can't accomplish using it.

A fantastic, in-depth and all-round book.

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