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PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides) Paperback – 23 Jan 2004

by Larry Ullman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (23 Jan 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321245652
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321245656
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 2.4 x 22.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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PHP for the Word Wide Web is a well-presented introduction to this popular server-side scripting language. Aimed at beginners, the 14 chapters cover programming basics such as using variables, performing numeric calculations, creating user-defined functions and reading or writing to files. There are also chapters on HTML forms, databases, cookies and use of regular expressions.

Like other books in the Visual Quickstart series, it uses wide margins and plentiful illustrations, although it has to be said that simple browser screens and code examples do not score highly on visual appeal. Even so, the combination of short, carefully explained topics, numbered steps and illustrations of the output makes for a clear, easy to follow tutorial. An appendix covers installation on both Linux and Windows.

This is a slim title, and does not pretend to cover advanced use of PHP. The database coverage, in just one short chapter, is particularly thin. If you already have a little programming knowledge, you might prefer one of the more detailed PHP books, such as Beginning PHP 4 Programming, from Wrox, or Leon Atkinson's Core PHP Programming. On the other hand, those looking for a keenly priced guide to PHP fundamentals will find PHP for the World Wide Web an ideal starting point. --Tim Anderson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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So you know HTML, even JavaScript, but the idea of learning an actual programming language like PHP terrifies you? Well, stop quaking and get going with this easy task-based guide! Aimed at beginning PHP developers just like yourself, this volume uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of visual aids to get you started testing scripts, using basic syntax, working with variables, creating Web applications, and everything else you need to know to create dynamic Web pages with this increasingly popular and important scripting language. Along the way, you'll learn about all that's new in version 5: the new Zend Engine, updated XML support, greatly improved streams (now able to access low-level socket operations), a bundled copy of SQLite, and more. Throughout the book, you'll find sample scripts and projects as well as the timesaving tips and techniques that have become the hallmark of the popular Visual QuickStart series. A companion Web site offers all of the book's scripts for download.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Good, but get the slightly more complicated one!
By "bunjiquo" on 21 April 2004
Format: Paperback
This book is good for your basic start in PHP. I've pretty much worked through it and found it to be well explained and easy to follow. For this I recommend it.
However, on the introduction of PHP4.1 the register_globals command is set to off as default. This means that if your server is running PHP4.1 or later with a default setup most of the example scripts featured in the book will need a small amount of modification before you can run them.
This book is a solid intro on PHP and the changes to the scripts needed to get them up and running are minimal. But, I would suggest getting 'PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Websites' by the same author and publisher as it covers all the topics in this book (and more), has the updated globals handling for PHP4.1 and covers MySQL. It isn't even that much more expensive!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Easy to learn good technique quickly
By Rebecca Fryer on 21 Jun 2003
Format: Paperback
I wasn't at first looking to break into PHP programming on a big scale, just to look into it and see what I could pick up and use for my website plus to help out with some coding for the LotR Forums who run a RPG game that benefits from a PHP Battle Calculator. However, what I picked up from the Visual Quick Start book more than whetted my appetite to learn more about the versatile PHP language. I was surprised just how good this book was at reducing the usually steep learning curve for any programming language and found myself coding within such a short time. It does suffer a little from being a bit of a cookbook for recipe functions so it helps to have had some experience at programming to help you break down the code and adapt it to your own needs, but saying that they do go to lengths to show you stage by stage break downs of the code, so that helps a lot. Now I'm eager to find a more advanced PHP book to supplement this book that really lives up to the title of being both 'visual' and a 'quickstart' into PHP programming. A definite 'must have' for anyone looking to start coding in this language.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A Good Primer for PHP
By Chris on 3 Aug 2001
Format: Paperback
I found this book excellent - a very easy to read book, well illustrated with examples.
I recently had to spend a weekend in hospital, just before my first PHP project. This book was my reading matter, and even though I didn't have access to a computer, I was able to follow the commentary and illustrations just as if I was in front of a keyboard.
I can honestly say that I learnt and understood the basics of PHP from this book alone.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
quickstart by name and nature
By A Customer on 27 Mar 2004
Format: Paperback
I needed a PHP text to help me with an intensive 1 week ecommerce module on my MSc. The second edition is recently published and up to date. I found I could quickly work through the basics in a weekend as pre-course reading and from knowing nothing was able to build a working database backed site in a week with my student colleagues. It seems easy to find what you are looking for in the book and the images help you see what the output should look like. It is definitely a beginners book assuming no prior programming experience. The author has a website with (not too many) errata already and a forum that he does respond to. There does seem to be some needless steps repeated in every example script i.e. step 1 is always create your document, step 2 insert error handler. Just a shame one or two chapters from the author's other books could not have been included e.g. on ecommerce. However I was pleased with the book - it got me quickly up to speed, helped me on my course and serves as a useful reference.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A good beginners PHP book
By A Customer on 29 Jun 2001
Format: Paperback
A good book to get if your just getting into PHP scripting. All the scripts are there on the page as they should appear in your text editor, and are also available from the books companion web site. I found it very easy to work through in only a few days.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Does what it says on the cover
By "xindigo66x" on 8 Jan 2003
Format: Paperback
A good introduction if you want to learn PHP quickly. Like other Visual Quickstart guides in the series it is well written and has an excellent layout which lends itself to rapid learning of the basics. The book covers fundamental syntax and commands aswell as installation/configuration and also has a chapter on using mysql databases with PHP. Of course if you want a more detailed and thorough PHP book you should definately look elsewhere, but if you don't have much time or just want to get stuck in then this is the book to go for.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great Book
By "anthony_jc" on 28 Jan 2004
Format: Paperback
I originally had a couple of other PHP books before buying this one and found them difficult to relate to as to what they were trying to tell me. Since reading this book I have found coding alot easier due to the fact that the visual interpretations of the code make more sense. A fantastic buy for beginners starting out in PHP.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good book
By A Customer on 6 April 2006
Format: Paperback
Before buying this book, my knowledge of php was fairly limited. I knew bits and bobs from scripts i've played with in the past and wanted to take it a step further and start getting good at it.
This book has helped to patch things together and I now feel much more confident to move on to a more advanced book. It is very easy to read and I like the way the scripts have been formatted in the book, with two copies of any script being explained; one full script (which is good for quick reference later in time) and then a step-by-step explanation of building the script which explains the reasoning for each part.
As others have mentioned, it's not the most advanced of books, but, if like me you have patchy knowledge, I recommend this as it will fill those gaps.
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