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| Book: | Learning PHP & MySQL | |
| Subject: | Mistakes make the book frustrating at best | |
| Date: | 2008-07-22 15:04:24 | |
| From: | Becka | |
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I bought this book because I have had good luck with O'Reilly books in the past. This book was full of errors. The most frustrating and time consuming were in the code examples. I just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what was wrong with my installation of PEAR, until I ran across some code on another web site that pointed out the line on page 193 should have included "UNIX +" after@ and before $db_host. How I would have figured this out on my own is beyond me, especially since I am not running UNIX. The author reviews her own book saying - "As the co-author of this book I'd like to say the following: * Yes there are some typographical errors" She goes on to say that they are addressed in the errata, wouldn't it have been more circumspect to have found and corrected the typos BEFORE the book went to print. Perhaps even worked through the code examples to prevent the numerous mistakes. As an instructor of computer science at a collegiate level I would HIGHLY recommend finding another book to use to learn PHP. |
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