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We bought dozens of copies of this book and use it for our PHP and MySQL Bootcamp. This book is straight forward and loaded with examples from the real world. Most of the examples can be used for real sites right out of the book. The book comes with a CD with all the code (although it would be nice to have on-line – not sure if provided). Overall, highly recommended for those who prefer to learn by example. Rating: 5 / 5
If you’re a newcomer to PHP 5 and MySQL and the lack of programming or database background, that should not keep you from benefitting from PHP and MySQL by example, which requires no prior knowledge and starts from scratch in the instructions. Its ‘example’ of the system is the key to success, with chapters offering diagrams, charts, and plenty of visual examples. Computer libraries strong in PHP5 or MySQL need this. Rating: 5 / 5
Of several books on PHP for beginners, I think this is the best I’ve esaminato.Buona explanations for everything and good reviews to get the big picture. I recommend PHP and MySQL by Example. Rating: 5 / 5
I often see reviews 1 star for textbooks that I used and I think that auditors should be too demanding, or are outright wrong. Often the 1 star reviews of books programming come from those who dislike the style of learning, and often a well-experienced programmers and beginners. This was not the case with this book. It ‘was a necessary book for my class and two weeks in the semester, are fundamentally clamp and hoping for the best buy another and corresponding to the program. There is the fact that it is rather dated, but this is a minor. There is a bigger problem that the concepts are brought up with no explanation and no reference to how you relate to what the book is the management at the time, but even that reluctantly I could deal with. What is completely atrocious on this book is the number of errors. I’m not talking about minor typos, either. This screws up syntax in the code book constantly. It was so bad and so frequent, the book is that each example must be examined line by line, because it seems that the screws almost every time you get it right. I’m not kidding. I bet (I guess ignorant, why abandon it) that a good 25% of the examples cited would not even run because of errors. I never pulled a book of this bad before and hopefully never will again, but this book is, for me, absolutely useless as a teaching tool. Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this as the textbook required for a class in PHP / My SQL. I suggested to the teacher who has found a different book for the classes future.Alcune people may like “example” format, but I do not. It tends to limit the possibility to write the code for examples of what you’ve seen the. In many cases, the book does not deepen the nuts and bolts of commands and functions for you to do much, but blindly copy examples of authors’. And that’s when i start guai.Come many other reviewers have noted, the book is full of typos and errors. For a new student, especially one without a deep background in programming, they could be extremely frustrating. Is my code wrong? Or I copy one of the errors of the authors’? I did a fair amount of programming, so I could take a lot of errors during lettura.Questo does not include many simple spelling errors that should have been caught by a spell ortografico.Il worst chapter of the book by far is state chapter 6 in string functions. An alarming number of “Format” section (in which the authors briefly the function and its arguments) and the code samples had some type of error (s) in them. My favorite is the str_ireplace “()” function. In the section heading, is spelled “stri_replace ()”. In the text of the section is spelled “stri_replace ()” and “str_ireplace ()” in different places. Finally, to cover their bets, whose function is the index as “stri_ireplace ()”! This is just one of many esempi.Inoltre, the book is all printed in grayscale. The lack of color inhibits leggibilità.La back cover of the book says that the book “illuminates every concept with tested code examples …”. After reading (most) of the book, there is no way this is a statement completely accurato.Una final complaint is the style of writing. Authors sometimes repeat the same or similar text, a number of times exasperating, as stated in an argument. Actually benefited from an editor more critica.In summary, I do not like the format or the visual aspect of the book, I’m not wild about the “by example” concept, and the book has too many errors to be taken seriously . Rating: 2 / 5