Rating: 

I got a project that requires PHP forms and MySQL database programming. Needed a book to quickly jump in and bring myself up to speed on the technologies involved.

While I find this book to be a little too basic in some cases, I find it a great way for me to start designing database schemas, coding forms, processing forms with PHP and communicating with the database.

For the content itself, I'd give it a 4.5 out of 5.

There are, however, many errors. Too many errors. I am surprised that this book was published the way it is. In one instance the ending of one page did not match with the beginning of the next page. Sometimes code examples are mistyped or wrong variables are used. It appears that noone did any proofreading of this publication.

For that reason, I cannot give the book a rating higher than 2.