PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development

I highly recomend this book to anyone that has no experience in PHP or MySQl and has a desire to learn both. This book's step by step chapters makes it easy to learn and use PHP. Before I was done with this book I was already coding my own PHP/MySQL programs and rewriting open-source PHP programs like PHP-Nuke and phpBB among others. This book is an excelent buy at any price!

Using this book and a few choice websites, I was able to create my very own PHP/MySQL driven website for users to sell books. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to learn PHP that have *some* programming experience

This book is a descent introduction to PHP. It covered a lot of useful topics including sending email, file system functions, cookies/sessions and MySQL connections. The largest project in the book was a simple content management system. Even though basic programming concepts are covered as well I think it still helps to have at least a little familiarity with programming or scripting. I only spotted a few minor errors throughout... Read Full Review

I went through this entire book and was quite impressed. After reading the reviews on how people didn't learn PHP using this book, I have come to the conclusion that they are mentally handicapped. This book is straight forward and gives you plenty of examples on how to manipulate MySQL databases and how to use php syntax and how to integrate it into your site. It covers cookies, sessions, and other VERY useful super globals... Read Full Review

I have the original version of this book-I've been overdue in its deserved praise. At least I've bought another worthy title by the author, "Teach Yourself MySQL". This version adds sections on the burgeoning XML and MySQLite and some other stuff. My idea of programming is that you don't want to expend undue effort to understand a book about a programming language or even the language itself. Your energies are best applied... Read Full Review