Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) @ richardeward.com

Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)
by W. Jason Gilmore
from Apress

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Best reference for php 5
  Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition by W. Jason Gilmore is a good resource to get you started on your way.
  After the brief history the book jumps right into installing and configuration then right into PHP basic; syntax, tags, data types. Then it's not long before you are writing functions, then using arrays, and then one of the most updated features of PHP 5, OOP. The book keeps moving right along into advanced features like error handling, regular expressions,... more info

• Not much recommended
  The book is more a glossary of terms that are in the php manuals. I could not benefit from any effort (except on a couple of occasions where something is described in full) that could have been devoted to trying to translate theory into the things you really need to know when actually doing anything you want, such as a search form that contains several select lists that are linked and that you want to pass the selected values to a database to retrieve results etc. You are not going to find an answer for... more info

• One of the bestcomputers books
  When i purchased this book, I was expecting a Computer book. To my surprise
  the book i purchased contained all the information that i was interested in learning(PHP, MySQL, database) as well as provided a great reading experience.
  This book is very interactive and fun to read. The author makes you feel part of the learning process and guides you through learning effectively not only about PHP,MySQL and many tricks of the trade, but also about a lot of other stuff that you most likely did not... more info

• Reads like reference, not very interesting, too long for not much.
  I have first started off programming PHP since 2002 and have built small websites here and there and mostly just 'web tools'. Since it has been some time since I really coded in PHP I decided to get a start from scratch book again, although knowing I still have the basics down. I believe this book is a drag-on, taking up more pages than it should, wasting time in many cases and it reads like a reference book, explaining function after function and in the later chapters PEAR classes/packages, all of which... more info

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