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Beginning PHP4
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Author: Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0764543644
Publisher: Wrox (15 November, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 39,915
Average Customer Rating: 4.02 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Dissapointingly inconsistent book
This book was an alright general introduction to PHP4 let down by a great number of inconsistencies between authors. They didn't introduce functions adequately in the latter parts of the book, for example in chapter 10 they start using new functions without any explanation of what they do or their usage, and the different authors didn't collaborate sufficiently as they use different ways of writing the same commands without any explanation (e.g. the echo "" and echo("") statements) and they also contradicted each other, for example again in chapter 10 the author uses typecasting while in a previous chapter we had been told this was unnecessary, and again no explanation is given as to why the author did this.The examples are also very tedious and in some places extremely repetitive (chapter 10 repeats the same example ten times with very little change). Overall a great dissapointment and it is also out of date as new PHP security means most examples will not work without changing to a weaker security setting. Not recommended, there must be more consistent books about for PHP.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Dissapointingly inconsistent book
The book is out of date as it covers PHP4 before security changes were made. It is also very inconsistant later on, as the various authors seem to believe in very different conventions, for example early on they claim type casting is unnecessary, then in Ch. 10 they use it loads - without any explanation, also in Ch. 10 they start introducing new functions without any explanation of how they work or even what they do (they explain some but not others) and the examples are really tedious due to similarity in some parts. The different authors also type the same commands differently (e.g echo ""; and echo(""); - again without explanation, and they obviously didn't collaborate enough to ensure consistency.Otherwise an ok introduction to PHP4, but I'm sure there are better guides out these that will be more consistent.
Rating: 3 out of 5
I was stucked at chatper 6
I was having headache when i read the book, that because the examples were all related to MATH . it's no use for building a real website . I feel sick of their explaination with more than pages, and just one example for the whole chapter . If you hate MATH , dont buy this book .
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