Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: Sams (March 29, 2005) ISBN: 0672327627 Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
OVERVIEW This
book offers straightforward practical answers when you need fast
results. By working through each 10-minute lesson, you'll learn what
you need to begin to use the PHP scripting language to make your
websites interactive and dynamic.
REVIEW When I first
laid eyes on this book and its title, Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes,
my first thought was that I gotta see this! So I opened it up and
figured I'd look through it for 10 minutes and see what hits me. Well
10 minutes turned into 20, 20 into 30 and 30 into a valuable resource
that sits on my desk.
Not only are the lessons within brief, but
they are very easy to understand, well presented and very easy to
understand for the beginner. Each lesson comes with tips to point out
shortcuts, cautions to help you avoid common mistakes and notes to
additional info. This book can be used in two ways, as a reference or
as a complete tutorial on PHP basics. That alone is something that is
very rare in techie type books these days.
Some of the more valuable and informative lessons will take you into the areas of:
- Strings and variables - Processing HTML Forms - Controlling and filtering Data - User authentication - Cookies and Sessions - Security practices - Configuring PHP and more!!!
The
book is pretty basic for experienced PHP coders, but for new or
intermediate users this book is worth more than the small $19.99 CAN
suggested price. Although the cover suggests it covers PHP 5.0, the
coding found within also applies to PHP 4.x.
CONCLUSION This
book completely suprised me with its value and does indeed teach you in
10 minutes what other books claim to do in 24 hours. Full marks to
author Chris Newman for this handy guide.