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How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL Review by Paul Lindemeyer
Extremely user unfriendly
I was assigned this book for a class on CMS development. It was a poor choice on the professor's part because it is not accessible to the novice, unless that person is unusually curious about the abstract logic of the language itself.
The great flaw in Vaswani's concept is that the PHP is explained only in terms of its own architecture - not divided into applications or tasks. Go down the Table of Contents for the PHP section and you see no "how to's" - only variables, operators, loops, etc. And after you learn a piece of PHP (if you do) you're given next to no applications for the code you're learning.
At least the book was distributed free of charge as a PDF thru my department. It cost about what it was worth, plus a considerable toll in frustration.