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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Sams; 2 edition (9 Jan 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0672323117
ISBN-13: 978-0672323119
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 x 3.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to the advanced functions.

The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four shows the reader how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches how to access databases and how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and much more.

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Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to the advanced functions.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction, 10 May 2002

By	Alistair Duncan "AlistairD" (UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

I have used a number of scripting languages so this gave me a head start with PHP. I was able to skim the first chapters and get into the really good stuff. This book moves at just the right pace but it is not as suited to the complete novice as you might expect. It often points to other books in the series that you might want to read first.

Basically if your HTML is good and you have a grounding in SQL you will find this book easy to get to grips with. In less than a week I had written a fully functioning bulletin board system using PHP and MySQL. Could have done with a CD though. That's my only serious criticism.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Beginners guide to PHP, 3 April 2002

By	Michael Mcloughlin (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book gives you a great starting point with PHP. It goes through all the major principles and once you have read it you will be able to design your own database enabled applications. The last two chapters go through how to set up a full application and this really helps to advance your knowledge.

Once you have read this you will have a beginner to intermediate knowledge of the language, from there you can either teach yourself furthur techniques or go on to a more advanced book.

Overall this is a great starting PHP book, it will take longer than 24 hours however.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Introduction - Excellent Examples, 3 Dec 2001

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This was a brilliant introduction to PHP for me. Coming from a technical background, I skim read the first dozen or so 'hours' and got stuck into the nitty gritty examples for form handling, session management and file-uploading etc.

However for me the best reason for buying this book was the fantastic last two chapters. These chapters cover setting up a complete web portal/community based site which allows users to login, modify their details/profile, add events to their pages and more. This was the basis on which I built a website and stood me in good stead for the job.

As a previous reviewer mentioned, the source code does not come with the book which means a lot of typing (the last two 'hours' took more like 8 hours to type up, and I don't type that slow either;\). On the contrary though, this can be good in that it forces you to debug your code as you go along, helping you understand better why errors occur when a script is executed.

All in all a definite recommendation for beginners (and even intermediate/advanced readers, if only for the example site in the last 2 hours).

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If you're looking to pick up in depth PHP knowledge in 24 hours, think again! While the book has now become a valuable resource it is not written for the... Read more

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