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PHP 5 Unleashed Review by Brad Smith
Not for Beginning PHP Coders
I am using this book for a college course I am taking. Having no experience with PHP, this book leaves a lot of questions for a beginner and can become very frustrating very quickly. Even following the code in the book and using a site set up to run PHP script, a lot of times the script that is written in the book does not run nor does the book do anything to show what the results of the script should do. Again for a beginner this becomes very frustrating and not very helpful to learn PHP code.
I am actually learning more from an older SAMS book, "Teach Yourself PHP4 in 24 hours", the only problem is we are trying to learn PHP5.
This is also become a problem for other students in the class as I have quickly learned. (Ranging from not knowing to use the .php extension to not knowing the code has to run on a computer or server with PHP installed) As I stated before, we are all Beginners dealing with the PHP script and what may seem obvious for more experienced PHP coders is not for first time coders, and this book does not even discuss these basics.