Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services
March 8, 2010 by BPELworld.com
Product Description
PHP is a popular open-source web scripting language used on more than 70% of web servers. This project-based book walks you through each step of building a complete interactive web site using PHP along with MySQL Web Services. Written for HTML developers poised to advance to the next level, and for PHP programmers seeking fresh ideas and time-saving techniques, this book stresses problem solving with PHP and proper research methods. Topics include: building a database schema with MySQL, developing a reusable website template with PHP, creating a website membership system, building a custom shopping cart system, and processing credit card payments with CURL.
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This book isn’t usable – avoid unless you want a lot of headaches due to all of the errors in it.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book was great! There were some slight errors, along with any book that you would find on the market, but this book was clearly a great read and I found it most valuable.
Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t waste your time with this one – like so many other book on PHP, it’s impossible to get through because there are so many mistakes in the code. Neither the publisher nor the author seem to care as neither will publish a REAL list of mistakes on their sites.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve had this !@#$ book for over a month – still can’t get the book due to ERRORS that the PUBLISHER ACKNOWLEDGED OVER A MONTH AGO but REFUSES to post on their web site. The current “errata sheet” is BOGUS and won’t help any one. Save your money and don’t buy this useless book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Unfortunately, this book has many errors in it and, until the publisher (Sybex) decides to release an errata sheet in order to make it truly usable, I can’t recommend it. (I’ll be happy to revise this review if they do.)
This book has the potential to be one of the best on the subject – the author’s writing style is clearly a cut above most other technical writers and he seems very knowledgeable about the subject. Unfortunately, as it stands now, the book isn’t usable by a beginner because there are so many errors. PLEASE fix them!
Update (Feb 3, 2004)
I give up – since I first posted this on Amazon, nothing has been done to fix the errors. Neither the Sybex site nor the authors own web site deal with the problems in the book. Look elsewhere if you really need to learn php.
Rating: 1 / 5