Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

By Matt Zandstra

Think of all the things you could do in 24 hours. Go sightseeing. Read a book. Learn PHP. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is a unique learning tool that is divided into 24 one-hour lessons over five sections. Starting with the basics, you will discover the fundamentals of PHP and how to apply that knowledge to create dynamic websites with forms, cookies and authentication functions. You will also find out how to access databases, as well as how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and more. A support website includes access to source code, PHP updates, errata and links to other relevant websites. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is a quick and easy way to learn how to create interactive websites for your end user. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672326191
• ISBN13: 9780672326196
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

It worked for me

I have a small shelf filled with PHP books. They all helped me a little bit (perhaps I'm just a slow learner.) But it wasn't until I worked through the 24 lessons in this book that I finally began to feel that I was getting a firm grip on the fundamentals of writing solid PHP code. This is the book that turned me from a bumbling amateur to someone on a respectable intermediate level, completely comfortable with reading through...

Good reference/guide/learning resource; perfect for novices and experts alike!

I'm an experienced PHP coder, since early PHP4. I started learning PHP from a (slightly earlier edition of) this book (although it has the same ISBN), from reading other scripts and then coding them. Even now, as experienced as I am, I still find it a very useful resource; most of the time it's easier to find something in there than by searching on a search engine or the PHP.net website. You could do a *LOT* worse than to...

Excellent book for a solid foundation in php and programming

3rd edition Published (December 16, 2003) ISBN: 0672326191 Covers PHP 4.3 First I'd like to mention that a lot of these reviews are from earlier versions of this book which makes reviewing this Third Edition very difficult. So it may be safe to disregard reviews dated before 12/16/03. This is an excellent book for beginners who know nothing about programming. However you must know XHTML before beginning this book. I have...

an excellent introduction to php

I thought this was an excellent introduction to PHP programming. The author really covers a broad swath of PHP, with as much depth as 400 pages will allow. If you're looking for more depth, pick up a book that's meant to be more in depth; if you're looking for a clearer introductory text, you'll have a hard time finding ont. This book is clearly written, has good working examples, and is extremely well-organized. I have a...

GREAT book

I knew nothing about PHP before reading this book, now I do backends for hundred-page sites and many other dificult scripts. Doesnt go quite into the amount of detail on MySQL as I would prefer, but was worth it none the less...