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Title: Excellent and Complete Reference Material
Review: For a beginner PHP developer, this book should be excellent for a start. Although it doesn't cover Oracle or MS SQL related function, it has short tutorial of SQL language; enough for building a dynamic database-driven web sites. I used to use Perl, this book made migrating to PHP simple. I like this book mostly because it explains function's behaviour clearly and list them by category (array functions, string functions, trigonometri function, etc.). It also has troubleshooting section for you to refer if you encounter problems running your script and doesn't understand what php said.
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