This is interesting. I checked the reviews on Amazon for "Teach
Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache" and most reviewers have rated it highly.
There are a few, however, that have panned it like Brian does. There
seems to be little middle ground.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Chris wrote
>
>>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:58:41 +0000
>>
>>Heh! I am just looking through "PHP & MySql for Dummies", learning
>>about the structure of SQL databases thinking that it looks rather
>>similar to horrid old Acc*ss :-)
>>
>>Your list looks fine to me, but as a serious suggestion, Allan, have
>>you looked to see which fields are produced by the camera and by the
>>software that is now available for photo editing and cataloguing?
>
>
> Quite a few months back when Andrew McPhee was active in this group and
> started the OM Odyssey, he was using php, and he or somebody else
> mentioned in the same breath MySQL.
>
> For the life of me I couldn't see any difference at my end between html and
> Andrew's php, but he said he thought it was the best thing since the
> invention of sliced bread, so I thought I'd take a look at it.
>
> Through http://www.bookfinder.com/ I found a book;
>
> SAMS "Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache" written by Julie C. Meloni.
>
> Big mistake. This turned out to be the most irritating book I have ever had
> the
> misfortune to open in 64 years of opening books. It is probably capable as
> far as it goes. It wades right in at the start by explaining where to
> download
> from, then how to install and create privileges. But NOWHERE AT ALL does
> it say what the purpose of these languages is. Nowhere.
>
> What do they do? No idea.
>
> If I tripped over the bloke who wrote it I'd probably throw the book at him !!
>
> There is also a suggestion, but I'm not sure; it's kind of a hint; that these
> programs should be installed on a server and not on a *standard* desktop
> machine (whatever that is). But absolutely no explanation or elaboration.
>
> I did try contacting the associate publisher, one Mark Taber at
> samspublishing.com but the email didn't work 2 years after the book was
> published. Perhaps just as well ...
>
> Brian (still fuming).
>
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