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Are you one of those people who think there isn't anything substantial that you can do in only 10 minutes? Think again. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes is a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building dynamic websites using PHP. Broken into 10 minute lessons, you will gain a rapid working knowledge of PHP 5 and be able to immediately put that knowledge to use in practical applications. Who ever would have thought there was so much you could do in just 10 minutes!
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Are you one of those people who think there isn't anything substantial that you can do in only 10 minutes? Think again. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes is a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building dynamic websites using PHP. Broken into 10 minute lessons, you will gain a rapid working knowledge of PHP 5 and be able to immediately put that knowledge to use in practical applications. Who ever would have thought there was so much you could do in just 10 minutes!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you want a fast way to get started in PHP, or simply to review and update your knowledge, then this is the book for you. It won't make you an expert in PHP programming but it does give you a wide enough perspective of the PHP language to help you make a fast start in writing interactive websites. The bite-sized chapters are necessarily limited in scope but make it easy to find information and provide practical examples of how to resolve specific problems. When you have finished reading it makes a great, easy-to-use, quick reference book to remind yourself about something you may have forgotten or skimmed over whilst reading. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to get started in PHP as it will take you a fair way into the topic and give you the groundwork that will lead to developing more expertise later on. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was recently asked by my boss to enhance a web site which had been put together using the WAMP framework by someone who had since left the company. Although there are much more comprehensive and detailed PHP texts out there, this fitted the bill perfectly.
This concise book covered the ground I was interested in over the course of a series of easily-digestible chapters to get me up and running in short order. It is perhaps now slightly out of date in that it makes no mention of (for example) the PDO database access model but otherwise I have no complaints.
This concise book covered the ground I was interested in over the course of a series of easily-digestible chapters to get me up and running in short order. It is perhaps now slightly out of date in that it makes no mention of (for example) the PDO database access model but otherwise I have no complaints.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A good starting point for those unfamiliar with the language.
4 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
I recently found a need to do a little PHP programming on a website. When I went looking for books what I found were any number of two to six hundred page texts. Then I found this little gem. It fitted my purposes perfectly as it explained the basics of PHP with examples for things I was trying to accomplish.
I will say that I that the treatment of classes was too brief and was the major reason that I didn't give five stars. The important things is that it provided a basis for me to experiment with the examples, accomplish what I needed to do, and allowed me to gain enough knowledge in a few short evenings that I'll be able to get another book on the subject without being totally lost from the first page. That is all I can ask from a cheap book.
I will say that I that the treatment of classes was too brief and was the major reason that I didn't give five stars. The important things is that it provided a basis for me to experiment with the examples, accomplish what I needed to do, and allowed me to gain enough knowledge in a few short evenings that I'll be able to get another book on the subject without being totally lost from the first page. That is all I can ask from a cheap book.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great!!!
27 Mar 2008
Format:Paperback
I started with a good computer background but limited coding experience and no knowledge of PHP. I got this book. I looked at it for an hour. I started writing a php test site. I worked my way through the rest of the book in four hours. I worked on the site for the next two days. I got the Sam's PHP in 24 hours book. At the end of a week I had my own online photo management / backup / sharing application up and running.
For high yield learning I've never seen anything that can rival this book. It both told me how to do what I wanted, why to do it that way, and what not to do. Simply, this book is a wonderful starting point for someone who is tech savvy and wants to learn by doing.
Advice:
Buy it so it arrives on a Friday before a free weekend, you are going to kill the weekend. Go on and buy the Sam's teach yourself PHP in 24 hours now and save yourself the frustration of waiting for it to ship.
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I was so happy with this Sam's book that I got PHP in 24 hours and the MySQL in 10 mins books to help with the same project. MySQL in 10 mins is also a great book. I didn't find it as good as PHP in 10 mins, but it's hard to say if that is a difference in the books of a difference in the two topics. (PHP in 24 is great, as I said earlier.)
Unfortunately those are really my only success stories with Sam's. I got both JavaScript in 24hrs and Ajax in 10 mins from Sam's and neither lived up to the PHP books. They were both much more of a cookbook feeling and less of an introduction to a topic.
For high yield learning I've never seen anything that can rival this book. It both told me how to do what I wanted, why to do it that way, and what not to do. Simply, this book is a wonderful starting point for someone who is tech savvy and wants to learn by doing.
Advice:
Buy it so it arrives on a Friday before a free weekend, you are going to kill the weekend. Go on and buy the Sam's teach yourself PHP in 24 hours now and save yourself the frustration of waiting for it to ship.
About Sam's
I was so happy with this Sam's book that I got PHP in 24 hours and the MySQL in 10 mins books to help with the same project. MySQL in 10 mins is also a great book. I didn't find it as good as PHP in 10 mins, but it's hard to say if that is a difference in the books of a difference in the two topics. (PHP in 24 is great, as I said earlier.)
Unfortunately those are really my only success stories with Sam's. I got both JavaScript in 24hrs and Ajax in 10 mins from Sam's and neither lived up to the PHP books. They were both much more of a cookbook feeling and less of an introduction to a topic.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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2 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
I'm still trying to learn PHP after going through this book. I have HTML, XHTML, actionscript, and CSS experience. It teaches interesting points about the language, but it's difficult to put the language into use with this book.
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