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I always get a little nervous when I see the cover of a 912 page book on PHP and MySQL state 'The perfect introduction to PHP 5 and MySQL...no programming or database experience necessary!' On the one hand, you'd think that 912 pages would be ample space to teach the neophyte the nuts and bolts of server side web programming. On the other hand, I have trouble believing that I could hand this book to my father (who is a wonderful mechanic, carpenter and landscaper) who has no real computer skills and expect him to master PHP and MySQL. However, that's what a book review is for...to see where (and if) the rubber meets the road.
The book seems to start where it's supposed to; with basic descriptions of Dynamic Web Sites, Open Source, PHP and MySQL. There are installation instructions on page 9, or rather a reference to them in Appendix E. I thumbed back to page 849, found the beginning of Appendix E and looked at the instructions. They were pretty straight forward but I know the perils newbies face when actually trying to install and configure Apache, PHP, and My SQL (XAMPP makes it pretty much a snap, but the book doesn't reference this method), so went looking for a more complete description of the target audience of this book.
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