The PHP Programming with MySQL
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PHP Programming with MySQL, by Don Gosselin is the first true academic textbook in the market to combine PHP with MySQL. This book covers one of the fastest growing technology combinations for developing interactive Web sites. With growth attributed to its open-source nature and usability amongst non-programmers, this text is accessible to users with little programming or database experience and suits personal Web development projects, as well as small to medium bus… More >>
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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
Rating: 4 / 5
It seems like a fairly thorough text on all the various aspects of PHP. How would one know, however, unless one studies another book along side? One major flaw which is very serious: there are typographical errors in coding examples AND explanatory texts. For a programming language that is an unacceptable feature. As a learner, one is dependent on the text being correct. Another pedagogical shortcoming is that some of the exercises ask the user to type in a block of code with mistakes in it. Then it asks the user to correct them. Personally I think that gives the user the opportunity to learn bad coding practice.
Rating: 2 / 5
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.
Rating: 3 / 5
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.
Rating: 3 / 5
I had to buy this book for a class I’m taking.
This book has too many mistakes, including typos, grammar errors, incorrect wording, errors in opinion, and errors regarding rules about how the code will compile.
This book needs someone to edit it and another person to check the validity of what is written and make corrections where needed.
It’s a shame that it was published with so many bugs. Hopefully, the next version will be better. But even then, at $70 a copy the price is too high.
Rating: 1 / 5