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How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL Review by Israel Smith
Best book for Beginners to PHP & MySQL (but only for Advanced Programmers)
Ok, at first I was shocked at the low scores/bad reviews for this book - as I consider it to be absolutely golden.
The problem lies here: This is (I should mention I own lots of PHP & MySQL books) the best book you could possibly purchase if you know nothing about PHP or MySQL ..... IF you are already a programmer. (If you are coming from other languages like C, C++ or even scripting languages like Perl [ugh!], Python, etc.)
What I see is total programmings newbies tackling this (nothing wrong with that - we were all newbies once) - and this book seems to be too unforgiving if you are not already familiar with alot of programming concepts.
I should mention though, if you are already familiar with PHP and MySQL, this book can only serve as a poor reference book. There are better ones (one of which I mention all the time is Meloni's Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One (4th Edition). I have no idea if the 4th edition (i own the 2nd) is as good as my edition, but it most certainly would be better than this book. )
I really like this book, but I only use it for reference when I don't have one of my other books closer.
So, in conclusion, buy this book if you need to learn PHP & MySQL if you are already an experience programmer. Otherwise, it won't really be very valuable to you.