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Creating Your Web Site with PHP

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First thing, I am new to PHP. Have read (some briefly) around 5 PHP books for the past weeks. Good things about this book are 1) the author used a light-toned approach like talking to the reader; 2) the author is apparently very familiar with PHP and web technologies and gave background/related info (e.g. CGI/Apache) plus relatively comprehensive handling of PHP. Code examples for large apps were not found. Code softcopy seemed unavailable either as download or CD. Devoted almost a good chapter on template management, which I personally found an overkill, especially one can use Smarty now. PHP 3 and 4 are covered (fully?). Unlike 'PHP and Mysql for Dynamic Web Sites' (Larry Ullman), OOP was covered here. To conclude, a good enough book but 1) would be nice to have a new edition, 2)a little on the pricey side for what it offers. Consider O'Reilly's (comprehensive treatment but not for the faint of heart, makes good reference or textbook.) and Ullman's (easy to take and very good pointers to related material and web sites, but not as theoretically-solid) first. Would give 5-star to O'Reilly (for the right reader) and 4 and a half to Ullman (for the lack of OOP, although not a huge deal as OOP covered in the PHP online manual from php.net).