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A Pain-Free Introduction to Building Interactive Web Sites
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PHP has gained a following among non-technical web designers who need to add interactive aspects to their sites. Offering a gentle learning curve, PHP is an accessible yet powerful language for creating dynamic web pages. As its popularity has grown, PHP's basic feature set has become increasingly more sophisticated. Now PHP 5 boasts advanced features--such as new object-oriented capabilities and support for XML and Web Services--that will please even the most experienced web professionals while still remaining user-friendly enough for those with a lower tolerance for technical jargon.
If you've wanted to try your hand at PHP but haven't known where to start, then Learning PHP 5 is the book you need. If you've wanted to try your hand at PHP but haven't known where to start, then Learning PHP 5 is the book you need. With attention to both PHP 4 and the new PHP version 5, it provides everything from a explanation of how PHP works with your web server and web browser to the ins and outs of working with databases and HTML forms. Written by the co-author of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book is for intelligent (but not necessarily highly-technical) readers. Learning PHP 5 guides you through every aspect of the language you'll need to master for professional web programming results. This book provides a hands-on learning experience complete with exercises to make sure the lessons stick.
Learning PHP 5 covers the following topics, and more:
- How PHP works with your web browser and web server
- PHP language basics, including data, variables, logic and looping
- Working with arrays and functions
- Making web forms
- Working with databases like MySQL
- Remembering users with sessions
- Parsing and generating XML
- Debugging
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An really excellent beginners book. You can read it away from a computer then come back and try things out. The writer has resisted the temptation to put everything he knows about PHP into the book, in the knowledge that you can go to the PHP web site (or many others) to learn more about something that interests you. Having said that, there's more than enough in the book to enable you to use PHP on your web site.
The examples really do help you to understand the text and the exercises are well worth working through. There's a good index. I didn't spot any errors. Finally - A well made book that lies flat when you open it.
The examples really do help you to understand the text and the exercises are well worth working through. There's a good index. I didn't spot any errors. Finally - A well made book that lies flat when you open it.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are coming from website development with html/xhtml and would like to move on learning php, this is the book to have.
It teaches you the very basic of programming from the very start with php so you have a solid foundation to keep building on.
I bought so many books where the writer just expected you to sit in front of a computer with the book somewhere between the keyboard and the mouse; This is not one of them, you can read this book on the train without having a computer in front of you as there are numerous examples and the result that would have been printed on the screen if you had done them.
At the end of the chapters, you also have exercises so you can learn by practice and monitor your progression (there you will need to be in front of your screen). The answers are at the end of the book.
It teaches you the very basic of programming from the very start with php so you have a solid foundation to keep building on.
I bought so many books where the writer just expected you to sit in front of a computer with the book somewhere between the keyboard and the mouse; This is not one of them, you can read this book on the train without having a computer in front of you as there are numerous examples and the result that would have been printed on the screen if you had done them.
At the end of the chapters, you also have exercises so you can learn by practice and monitor your progression (there you will need to be in front of your screen). The answers are at the end of the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not a book for anyone with any level of programming experience (no matter how small) The author seems to stretch out simple topics over complete chapters. And although he gives plenty of code examples to illustrate his points, they are often so similar you wonder if he could of just had the one rather than half a dozen with small incremental changes.
He's policy of being 'jargon free' is also a double edged sword, it means it's more readable but as a result he has a tendency to gloss over the all important 'why' (when to use certain features or what they actually mean past a simple and often trivial explaination)
I would only recommend this if you are an absolute beginner at anything remotely code related. To everyone else, there are much more concise and better detailed books out there. The one I personally would recommend is by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf himself.(Programming PHP). To me, 'Learning PHP 5' is like a tourist phrase book; you gain very little understanding of the underlying meanings or the all important context of how to use it - but hey at least you can ask for directions (albeit rather stiltedly) to the nearest post office or restaurant... ;)
He's policy of being 'jargon free' is also a double edged sword, it means it's more readable but as a result he has a tendency to gloss over the all important 'why' (when to use certain features or what they actually mean past a simple and often trivial explaination)
I would only recommend this if you are an absolute beginner at anything remotely code related. To everyone else, there are much more concise and better detailed books out there. The one I personally would recommend is by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf himself.(Programming PHP). To me, 'Learning PHP 5' is like a tourist phrase book; you gain very little understanding of the underlying meanings or the all important context of how to use it - but hey at least you can ask for directions (albeit rather stiltedly) to the nearest post office or restaurant... ;)
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Great deal!
Perfect conditions and a good price for an excellent reference book.
The book arrived in 5 days and since then I've been reading it constantly. Really satisfying!
The book arrived in 5 days and since then I've been reading it constantly. Really satisfying!
Published 3 months ago by lore20
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I have to say that this book is absolutely brilliant, very easy to follow and understand and makes PHP a breeze to learn. Read more
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Practical little book!
This is one of my PHP books that I use very regularly. Some PHP books require that you sit on a computer and type code line by line. Read more
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