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PHP 5 for Dummies
by Janet Valade
from For Dummies

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• very good work
  This book is a very well prepared for its purpose and target readers... This is for the beginners and guides you through to intermadiete level in PHP. If you have some background in PHP, then I would suggest other works for intermediate and advanced coders.
  There are some printing errors that corrected by the author at her web site.. www.janet.valade.com/php5errors.html Please do not forget to go there to print the table out, so you can keep with the book.

• The errors make this "how to" book somewhat useless
  I have to repeat what others have said. This being a programming book, it is inexcusable to have _ when the programming language wants a "
  Terrible experience trying to learn a programming language when several symbols are just plain wrong in the text. What's the point? I'm paying money to waste my time figuring out typos in a programming language I do not know.
  So why did I give my money? Never again. The publisher should be recalling this book but they haven't done so.
  Other then this... more info

• There are better choices out there
  I only give this two stars because there are a few snippets of code that are worth absorbing. However this book has enough errors to make the subject matter confusing. I've used quite a few "Dummies" books as intros to a variety of subjects in my 20 years of programming. They have for the most part been quite helpful.
  I always expect some errors from books dealing with technical material, but the errors here are of a nature so as to cause confusion, especially to those new to PHP.
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• Yes, the author reads the reviews.
  Yes, the author reads the reviews here. That's me. The error in which a few quotes were replaced with underscores occurred during the publishing process, after I was finished with the book. I didn't know about the errors until I saw the earlier review here. However, there is no way to fix it. If the book is reprinted or a second edition is released, I can fix the errors, but not until then. I wish I could. I apologize to any who were confused by this problem.
  There are 8 quotes replaced with... more info

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