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Julie Meloni is the Technical Director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA. She's been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish. She is the author of "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition" (Premier Press, 193184187X).
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for beginners, but brief,
By jurisdprudentialponderer "the truth hurts som... (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This book is a very good starting point for anyone who wishes to begin programming in PHP.I picked this book up in hopes of getting somewhat of a grasp of PHP. The book was very successful in presenting appropriate concepts for beginners such as: varibables, arrays and operators. The book also had a few chapters on using MySQL, which is very helpful for anyone who wishes to create full-blown web applications such as shopping carts, forums and news services on their websites. However, the book was somewhat vague in the amount of content presented. The book is like a giant PHP coding tutorial, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, if you're not a beginner. For a complete introduction to PHP/MySQL I would suggest buying this book AND PHP/MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson. With these two books, a beginner will be on the right path down the complicated road of online applications.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Thin on content, but very gratifying!,
By paul van egmond (Amsterdam, NL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
PHP Fast & Easy Web development is an ideal introduction on setting up your own local Apache server, complete with PHP and MySQL support, for Windows and Linus alike!! This book focuses on developing locally, which is a bonus for those of us who don't have acces to a PHP-enabled shared-hosting account. Meloni helps you get started quick, and holds your hand along the way, all the way: if you are really stuck, you can send her an e-mail and you will get a brief, but to the point, answer. This book is meant for beginners, and it shows: it is quite thin on content and will provide too little information for getting a proper grounding in programming languages. Stuff like Arrays, Variables and Database Design are NOT explained in detail. Instead, this book showcases the basic possiblities of PHP and MySQL by guiding you through examples of database connections, user authentication, sessions and more. As such it is a great way to get a grasp of the things you can do with PHP, and the time and experience required to do them. I forgive Meloni for glossing over EVERY SINGLE PROGRAMMING CONCEPT THERE IS, since almost all other books will cover those in detail. However, I would ask of her to at least explain debugging PHP (What to do if your script doesn't work).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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I'm so glad this is the book I chose,
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This review is from: PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Plain and simple - THE guide to use to start programming PHP. Half way through, I was dying to get finished so I could start developing my own projects. PHP is a great language for Web programmers!
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proper authentication channels, mysgl error, close your form, new table data cell, prim tel, use your own path, select varchar, useless sample page, instruction terminator, close the while loop, backend script, date acq, style sheet block, secondary telephone number, page desc, primary telephone number, sec tel, selected font family, administrative menu, new table row, count desc, count res, session session start, assume that the method, subscribers table Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Address Line, View Records, Installing Apache, Program Files, Send This Form, Apache Group, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Show Contacts, Apache Web, Contact Added, Contact Updated, Secret Area, Windows Start, Configuring Apache, Contact Deleted, Displaying Records Ordered, Hello World, Set Display Preferences, Total Accesses Tracked, Try Again, Add Contact, Show Name, Submit Form, Update Contact Record, Use the Back New!
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proper authentication channels, mysgl error, close your form, new table data cell, prim tel, use your own path, select varchar, useless sample page, instruction terminator, close the while loop, backend script, date acq, style sheet block, secondary telephone number, page desc, primary telephone number, sec tel, selected font family, administrative menu, new table row, count desc, count res, session session start, assume that the method, subscribers table Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Address Line, View Records, Installing Apache, Program Files, Send This Form, Apache Group, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Show Contacts, Apache Web, Contact Added, Contact Updated, Secret Area, Windows Start, Configuring Apache, Contact Deleted, Displaying Records Ordered, Hello World, Set Display Preferences, Total Accesses Tracked, Try Again, Add Contact, Show Name, Submit Form, Update Contact Record, Use the Back New!
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