This book was everything I hoped it would be and more. Being an almost complete novice at programming, I bought this book in order to learn enough to devellop a web-based POS and stock control application. I followed the book as a course, (admitedly skipping a few parts, such as object-oriented programming, and PEAR). Now I'm writing my code quite happily, and parts of my application are already in use, being a significant improvement on what we had previously.
I did find a few typos, but nothing to write home about, certainly nothing that was difficult to spot quite quickly. I would say the authors must have tested their code pretty thoroughly before publishing.
The part I found wanting really were the instructions for installing Apache/Php/MySQL. In the end I had to uninstall everything, and start again using instructions on this page:
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/
One has to update for all paths and filenames, as these are out of date. Then, as this page is for php 4.3, I used the instructions in L P&M for downloading and installing the MySQL extensions.
As a conclusion, I would like to sincerely thank the authors for the work they put into this book. Those were 29.99 very well spent US dollars!
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