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|  | Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Category: Book
List Price: $54.99
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Seller: James Books 1776
Rating:  225 reviews
Sales Rank: 5400
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 1008
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 2
ISBN: 0672329166
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9780672329166
ASIN: 0672329166
Publication Date: October 11, 2008
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 From zero to code warrior in no time... March 4, 2010
Bradley D. Thornton (Super Sunny Southern California USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Perhaps some of you have read other reviews by me - some of them can be scathing. I don't pull any punches when it comes to warning others of the vagaries of trudging through an inferior text, or heralding the the truly great ones, and this is one of the latter.
The author takes a bit of time getting you up and running, and then you're off in free flight, building from one competency and then on to another in a logical, metered pace.
You're not constrained by the idiot type this/that, and once you're into the third chapter you'll find yourself going back and applying newly learned principles on your earlier scripts for edification.
I originally purchased the second edition of this book, and so most of what I used this book for was to update my competencies with the newer and improved PHP, since I liked the style presented in this text. It's already raggedy and dog-eared, with my own notes in the margins copied over from the earlier edition as well as new noteworthy items for my reference.
Integration with databases is assumed from the very beginning, which is a very real world paradigm.
The book doesn't assume that you need to follow every example verbatim to learn, which is good because we're not robots, so it holds your interest as an easy reading adventure for those chamomile tea nights when you want a good book to relax with after a long day at the keyboard.
I highly recommend this book.
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Well Written February 9, 2010
Fred Dearman (USA)
I am pleased with the organization and presentation of information. The subject is well defined which as a programmer, I need preciseness and it is there. I'm only part way into the book, but I am extremely pleased so far.
 Great seller December 21, 2009
Elizabeth Wilson (East Liverpool, OH USA)
0 out of 40 found this review helpful
Great fast shipping. I haven't used the book yet because class starts in january. However seller description of book was adequate and it arrived in stated time frame.
 Shallow and teaches bad development practices December 17, 2009
Miller Medeiros
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
The first reason why I decided to write this review is that the book explain important concepts in a really poor way (sometimes in less than 1 page) and spend many pages with useless examples.
I've bought this book expecting an in-depth view of PHP (just look how many pages this book has...) and I'm really disappointed - I'm an experienced OOP developer and this book simply doesn't fit my needs, the PHP online documentation is way more helpful.
Another bad thing about this book is that it teaches many bad practices and they don't even explain that it's a bad practice at all. Don't even teaches how to structure your code, how to use OOP properly (without polluting the global namespace, etc..) or even how to structure folders/classes in a proper way.
Sure it deserves more than 1 star but it's definitely not a 5 star book.
PS: this review is about the 4th edition.
A Superb Resource for PHP/MySQL Web Development December 4, 2009
Abertonian
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book. I usually choose well, and this is one of my favorites. The clarity, detail, and breadth of content are superb and empowering, allowing even a novice with minimal PHP and MySQL experience to create powerful web- and database-driven applications. After a comprehensive treatment of PHP and MySQL, the authors provide several extremely well-worked project examples (e.g. generating PDF documents, building a shopping cart, content management system, web forum) and even include a valuable primer chapter on Web services. I've used this book thoroughly and couldn't be more satisfied with my ROI.
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