PHP 5 Fast and Easy Web Development

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 568 pages
• Published by: Course Technology PTR
• Edition: 1st Edition May 11, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1592004733
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1592004737
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 pounds

Product Description
Don't spend your time wading through manuals to learn PHP 5. Spend it doing what you do best - creating web pages! With "PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development" you can get up and running with PHP 5, Apache, and MySQL with ease. By the time you're finished, you'll be able to display dynamic content, build your own contact management system, create custom reports, work with XML, and much more. Less time, less effort, more results!

About The Author
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, Polish, and even Serbian.

Reader Reviews
This book is very problematic in the fact that, despite the author's claim of "three or four technical reviewers", there are coding problems which could have been easily caught by testing the code. For example code given on pages 89-90 for a script generate errors abut undefined variables and . I double checked my code against the book and found no differences. I downloaded the source code from the author's web page and used that and received the same errors. The author's website also makes it clear that she is somwhat unreceptive to these errors being pointed out when I went to the site advertised for her to see if there were any corrections and such. She does not even provide a means to contact her and from the tone of her "Contact Information" page, she does not take to kindly to being called on the carpet. This book is definitely a work in progress and should not be purchased by anyone wanting to actually learn PHP.