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Review title: Great book for intermediate programmers
Product review: Before buying this book I was familar with PERL, C++, ASP, and SQL. I bought this book looking for a quick way to learn the syntax of PHP and how to use it with MySQL. This book proved to do that very well, but I am unsure how well this book would have done had I been without my prior programming experience. Some of the topics go by fairly fast and without some previous knowledge it might be hard for a beginner to grasp some of the ideas. Nonetheless, this is a great book which outlines the basics of PHP extremely well. Though I don't yet consider myself an expert on the topic, this book was perfect as an introduction and a good enough introduction that I feel confident that I can go out an develop my own PHP applications.
