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| Web Technologies Series Php Programming |
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| Manufacturer: South Western College |
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This book covers the basics of PHP and MySQL along with introductions to advanced topics including object-oriented programming and how to build Web sites that incorporate authentication and security. After you complete this course, you will be able to use PHP and MySQL to build professional quality, database-driven Web sites.
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 Everything was as it should be |
| Review Date: February 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: David E. Secor, Grayslake, Ill. |
| The book was in great shape, as is to be expected. The delivery was free, great bargain. Thank you |
Good book for programmers
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| Review Date: February 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Otto Vlotto, AT, Large, USA |
This was one of the assigned books for a class of mine, but I quite liked it. As a teacher and a programmer of ~25 yrs, I like a book that I can not only read from front to back, but one in which I can easily 'look things up', since I often know how to do something in another language but want to see how it is done with this tool.
This book is clear and concise and fills both needs. I liked the fact that it talks not only about the languages PHP and MySQL, but also how to get started with them (installation, configuration, and use with HTML). This book, along with the XAMPP/PHP/MySQL toolset made learning very easy and immediate.
One suggestion I'd make, however, would be for the book to include the XAMPP/PDT-all-in-one eclipse/Zend Debugger toolchain. Particularly on Windows, this allows the student to do open-source-package command-line debugging that is painless and accurate. Once I figured out how to use these tools, creating and debugging the book examples was 'a breeze'. It could have saved a lot of time for DG to include this industry-standard toolset. Kudos to Gosselin, though, for a great book... jps |
useful textbook, but it does have errors
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| Review Date: March 4, 2009 |
| Reviewer: kh, California |
| This was the required textbook for a class I was taking. I was worried when I saw all the 1 star reviews, but it wasn't that bad. Yes, it has significant typos, but if your instructor tells you about them, it isn't such a problem. I learned a lot, and both the examples throughout the chapter and the hands-on projects were useful. |
Not a perfect book
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| Review Date: September 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Sarah Nielsen, Ogden, Ut USA |
| This is a pretty good book to learn PHP and MySQL, but there are alot of errors. I had to get extra help in some areas just because the book had the wrong statements shown. It got very frustrating at those times. I basically had to proofread parts of the book for them. Other than that, it does give you a good basic background of PHP and MySQL. |
OK, Used For A Class, Finding Errors
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| Review Date: June 15, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Adam F. Jewell, Pittsburgh, PA USA |
In the quest to learn PhP/MySQL, this book was the book used for a class. So far it seems ok but I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why I was getting errors only to realize the code in the book had typos in it.
Page 172 in "Functions and Control Structures", the ScoreQuiz.php if statements have no closing brackets } in the code in the book. The same file is used for more exercises in the book so unless you spot this, subsequent exercises will give you errors too.
Page 455 #7, the if statement is again missing the opening and closing brackets.
Page 486 #6, #7 The closing paragraph tags are printed in the book as < / p ."); and should be < / p > . ); Amazon seems to have filters that make posting any code almost impossible so just take the spaces out of those examples if they show on the page.
To someone who has done a lot of programming, these may seem like no big deal, but when trying to learn this stuff for the first time it is quite frustrating. It is just sloppy editing.
If I come across more errors/typos that result in code that doesn't function, I'll post the issue and solution.
If there is an errata section posted anywhere? If so I haven't found it. |
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