On 18 Oct 2004 21:05:55 -0700, john.postlethwait@gmail.com in comp.lang.php wrote:
>PHP For the World Wide Web (Visual Quickstart Guide) is the best one I
>have seen, Larry Ullman is the author and does a beautiful job of
>explaining things.

>He has a beginner and advanced version and both are wonderful. He
>explains everything and shows the code for all of his examples, also a
>lot of his examples are downloadable off of his website.

>He also goes over interfacing with MySQL in both versions of his
>books....

I concur with this, for the beginner Larry's books are the best I've
seen. Most other books assume one has some programming knowledge, which
isn't the best way for novices to start IMHO.

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marathon
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