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Description: I purchased this book after having carefully studdied many books about the subject. I fell for this book, simply because it got the best rating and when I went to my local book store and scanned it, I had to own it. It starts out with a PHP crach course (syntax and semantics), moves over to cover string manipulation, expressions, function calls etc. All in all, very simple stuff that you should be able to grasp easily, are you known to other high level programming or scripting languages. Then you get introduced to basic database design, dynamic image generation etc. What makes the book special however, is that the whole second half of the book, shows you real world examples of things like session control, user authentication, shopping cart management, a mailing list manager, an email web-interface, web-forums and more. This second part is what you really will learn from! The book should be called "Real World PHP and MySQL development." The only little thing that I miss in the book, is ..
| ISBN: |
0672317842 |
| Release Date: |
30 March, 2001 |
| List Price: |
$49.99 |
| Author: |
Luke Welling, Laura Thomson |
| Publisher: |
Sams |
| Last Updated: |
06/26/2003 |
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0.00 (out of 5)