This book covers the basics of PHP and MySQL along with introductions to advanced topics including object-oriented programming and how to build Web sites that incorporate authentication and security. After you complete this course, you will be able to use PHP and MySQL to build professional quality, database-driven Web sites.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Riddled with Errors,
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This book has 10 chapters. I have painstakenly gone through each chapter while taking the PHP class and found errors in EVERY chapter. Not just a few here and there, omissions of code that makes your code non-functional. As a student who is learning, often we as a class learned the code wrong and then had to unlearn it and relearn the right code. A good example is the pregmatch() {3,16} function which verifies that a password (for example) is at least 3 characters and not more than 16. The way it is written in the book doesn't work. What does work is {3.16} using a period instead of a comma. Backticks (`) are typed as regular apostrophes(') so the explanation of "being new to programming as a reason for the poor review" is irrelevant as every character is EXTREMELY important when programming. For every 2 hours I spent learning and writing the code to see for myself, I spent literally over 30 hours trying to figure out what was wrong with the code. To date there is a 5 page error data sheet on the Cengage website which consists MOSTLY of all the errors I've discovered along with a FEW of the errors the editor found [that's right their own editor missed a majority of these]. It should be an embarrassment to Cengage and they should immediately put out a 3rd edition. If you are a student, please share this with your professor as this will be the only way to force this book into retirement.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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a few problems,
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I am using this book to learn PHP as part of a college class I am taking. The book has errors in the coding, which makes life harder than it needs to be. The projects/assignments have very vague instructions. Some of the answers are very difficult to come up with. This book has some very good information, but I am thinking there is most likely a better book out there.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Semester In Purgatory,
This review is from: PHP Programming with MySQL: The Web Technologies Series (Paperback)
I truly hated this book! I had to buy it for an online course at my local college. After coming across a few errors as I struggled through the book a classmate told me of all the complaints of errors in online reviews. After it became increasingly difficult and all time consuming to get any of the code to work as I worked through the chapters. I went out and read these reviews. I agree with what has been said about this book. The book tries to teach (error ridden) basic code. Then with their ambiguous wording expect you to pull elegant code--that was never taught--out of thin air for some of the exercises at the end of each chapter.
I tried to get my instructor to let me have answers from the quizzes and comprehension checks from previous chapters (because the book doesn't provide them). I was told this would violate some agreement that the instructor had with the authors or publishers. I felt like I ran into more road blocks to learning with this book than I ever have experienced before. I am not completely new to programming nor am I stupid! I have managed to get through 3 years of college with a 3.8 GPA. So I just really don't think having this much difficulty with the book is my problem. I feel this book and class was a waist of my time and money; furthermore, I will probably have to retake the class. I will definitely have to look beyond this horribly frustrating experience if I want to actually learn PHP. Thanks!
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