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Learning PHP, MySQL, And JavaScript (2009)

by Robin Nixon(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0596157134 (ISBN13: 9780596157135)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

O'Reilly Media

review 1: Although the book offers a decent introduction to some of the technologies outlined in its title and how they work together, I would not recommend this to someone wishing to start web development in 2014. The book's redeeming quality is that its chapters on MySQL, Javascript and CSS are somewhat useful as a basic introduction to some of the tools used in web development. It also provides some useful help in setting up a development environment. I would argue, however, that the chapters on PHP could be particularly damaging to novices. The author follows poor coding practices (for example he mixes PHP directly with HTML - a big no no), his examples are a convoluted mess and much of his PHP code contains features of the language that are deprecated. Only after reading this b... moreook did I find out how damaging its lessons are. I urge aspiring web developers to give this book a miss.
review 2: It is a nice book that helped start me into PHP programming. Decent read but the book I think should have went more in depth on PHP programming and done less with MySQL. The storage of the information is easily worked out but the programming features take a bit more and are less easily grasped. This book along with a book or some information on OOP PHP would make a great way to learn PHP web development. less

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