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Book:   Learning PHP and MySQL
Subject:   This book is poor quality
Date:   2006-11-27 06:41:32
From:   Noel Byrne
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

This book is very poor quality. It is obvious that the internal O'Reilly reviewers did not review the document properly as there are so many errors of every type. Some sentences don't even make any sense. Some sentences say exactly the opposite to what they should say. Code examples are sometimes wrong.

As an experienced programmer, I can see the mistakes easily, and ignore them, but I think it is very unfair to real learners to give them a text like this, as I think the many errors will cause them real problems. I think O'Reilly should recall this edition until the problems are sorted.

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