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Title: Not for PHP beginners!
Review: Maybe beginners with PHP 5.0, but you definately need some prior PHP scripting experience for this book to be useful.Gilmore does not have any real life examples for you to try and build your knowledge on in this book. Only a couple of lines are for each different sub-topic. None of them are connected to previous lessons. Some of the "examples" is not complete code. Just how that particular function or command would look on a single line. Very poor for a beginners guide.I would have liked to see the book walk me through building some applications then tie them all together at the end before moving on to MySQL.I recommed PHP & MySQL Programming (3rd Edition) PRIOR to reading this book.After you can write your own simple PHP applications should you then move on to this book.
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