|
Programming PHP
 |
Author: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price
ISBN: 1565926102
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (March, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 4,381
Average Customer Rating: 3.55 out of 5
|
Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Disappointing
O Reilly publishes the best programming books--they're accurate, elegant and get to the point quickly. Unfortunately, this book is an exception. I agree with the complaints of the other reviewers, e.g., the text has buried information and incorrect examples. However, my main ojection is the index. It appears that the authors simply searched for every keyword in the book then tabulated them in the index. Thus, the index is hardly useful. It's no good to look through several pages just to find that the keyword was used once in a passing sentence that has little to do with that topic.
Rating: 2 out of 5
not worthed
It sure tries to teach you something but cannot achieve...
As everyone mentioned before, it has countless errors and typos. But there is more than that. Book is out of focus. Examples makes no sense and not related to each other, which is very confusing.
A piece of code here and other piece is there. Every example is coming out of nowhere. It doesn't have a project. So everytime different variables, situations. Like, in one example it uses Flintstones character names ($name=Fred, $name2 = fred etc.). Next example is subjects of a class (math, science, history, english etc.), on other one it uses very random strings like ("I like paris in november", "the key is in my pants")
If you want to learn PHP, stick with "PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition" By Luke Welling, Laura Thompson.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Full Of Errors, Not For Beginners
This book has code examples which are full of typos. For example, the code for "self-processing pages" on page 166 won't parse. The publisher's list of unconfirmed errata goes on for 12 printed pages. This is in addition to the confirmed errata, another 2 pages. It does not look like the book's authors want to acknowledge their mistakes or participate in correcting them.If you are a beginner, steer clear of this book. If you do get it, be prepared to spend a considerable amount of time researching each and every parse error.
Similar Products
· PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
· Managing and Using MySQL (2nd Edition)
· PHP Cookbook
· MySQL Cookbook
· Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
|
