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Great for anyone with an interest in learning PHP.

Advantages: comprehensive, good value for money
Disadvantages: lack of tutorials, daunting for the absolute beginner

PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition is a a beast of a book, weighing in at a hefty 960 pages and covering everything from the very basics to database design & creation, web services, security and XML and beyond. It's thoughtfully written, with m ...

wekilledtheradio 10.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of PHP and MySQL Web Development - Laura Thomson, Luke Welling

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Excellent tools for Web site design-PHP and MySQL

Advantages: easy way to manage the web site for you
Disadvantages: you need some foundation on the programming

I think this paper not only introduce for the book, it is important to introduce the trend of the software developing for e-age, and on the other hand I want discussing it with you. Basiclly, you read this book first, then you need plan for your web, t ...

keer_zhang 03.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of PHP and MySQL Web Development - Laura Thomson, Luke Welling

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A "Perl" Of Wisdom

Advantages: A huge amount of info
Disadvantages: A huge book is needed to house it all

...this academic year it was decided that I needed to teach myself Perl so I could use the language to program my masters project. It wasn’t a language I had any experience of, so I got hold of a Perl in 3 weeks book and took just one of thos ...

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Review of Perl By Example - Ellie Quigley

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