The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP [Paperback]

David Lash (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0321121740 | ISBN-13: 978-0321121745

This book is a brief introduction to PHP that shows readers with little or no previous Web programming experience how to empower their Web sites with PHP This book requires no previous programming experience. It provides realistic full-color screen shots and code examples. Demonstrates all the basic PHP language features. Shows how to create surveys and order processing systems. Shows how to write PHP scripts that can save data into files on a Web server. This book is designed for readers with limited programming skills who want to learn to use PHP; as well as students taking a Web design course where PHP is used.

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This book is a brief introduction to PHP that shows readers with little or no previous Web programming experience how to empower their Web sites with PHP This book requires no previous programming experience. It provides realistic full-color screen shots and code examples. Demonstrates all the basic PHP language features. Shows how to create surveys and order processing systems. Shows how to write PHP scripts that can save data into files on a Web server. This book is designed for readers with limited programming skills who want to learn to use PHP; as well as students taking a Web design course where PHP is used.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (August 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321121740
• ISBN-13: 978-0321121745
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,040,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Introduction To PHP and Scripting, October 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP (Paperback)

This is a very good introduction to scripting using PHP.
The books has lots of diagrams and examples. I have worked through several examples and still refer to the diagrams
to quickly look up things I forgotten. The code examples are
short and have detailed code walk throughs that really help understand them.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read the book, dump their site, then move onto www.php.net, February 19, 2004

By 

John Beckett (http://computing.southern.edu/jbeckett) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP (Paperback)

I teach an introductory web sequence that includes some PHP. I use this book because it has good explanations instead of doing lite coverage of everything that's done on the web.

The book's website is hosed, however. Ignore it as they have ignored my pleas for fixing it. By Fall I'll probably have a version that does what the book says it does.

Thin is OK if the book is good. This book is both.

As you work through the book, get acquainted with the manual at www.php.net - it'll take you the next step.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good intro to PHP, October 2, 2002

By 

Rod Ford (Florence, Ky United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Web Wizard's Guide to PHP (Paperback)

As a PHP instructor, I found this book to be an excellent introduction to programming on the web with PHP. It doesn't require that you have any programming background before diving into the book. My students did well with this book but it just wasn't enough material for a semseter.

Although it is a little shorter than I would have liked, it's a great book to get you started with PHP. This book is a good companion to Core PHP.