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Multi-Tier Application Programming with PHP: Practical Guide for Architects and Programmers (The Practical Guides)

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I hate this book. All the book is the repetition of the same code with very, very few differences. The description let's argue that is pointed to advanced users but the content is so basic that it is hard to believe. It uses SOAP in its most basic fashion. The code is so poor (also the HTML and the JavaScript used). The code is written in a so invasive fashion that if you strip it (and is not a bad idea), you will find no more than 30 pages.
The Multi-Tier is just supposed to be good and misused.
As you may understand, I strongly advise to not buy this book.

I have to agree with a previous review, this book is a disappointment. This book falls somewhere between a blog post and a sophomore CS student term paper. They even pulled that old slightly larger font trick to thicken this book.

The code is so ridiculously simple, repetitive, and inefficient that its almost tedious to read through. I understand the code isn't focused, but their should at least be some logical code. Example after example is so repetitive you really only need to read the first one from each chapter. The chapter on nusoap is literally 3 or 4 pages long and an example of 5 lines of code.

You can find plenty of free resources online that do a better job explaining these theories easier. No need to waste your time or money here.

This book does a very good job of explaining what "Multi-Tier Application Programming" is in the world of web development, and gives a good starting point on how to go about designing your environment. If you are looking for code to copy and paste into web pages, keep looking. This book is not a tutorial with lots of sample code. Its a good overview of an architectual framework.

I loved this book. Wall has an easy to read writing style that is hard to find in this genre. Content wise, I'd been looking for information on the InnoDB table type, and found it here. No other book I've looked at shows as explicitly as this one how to build true referential integrity into a MySQL database. The book is worth its price for the InnoDB information alone.