Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites

This book taught me everything I needed to know to land a decent job as a PHP developer and quit my underpaid job as an EMT. (I did have some previous programming experience.) I've now developed a CMS in PHP that has been used on dozens of big industry websites. I recommend this book to anyone looking to quit their dead-end job and become a developer! As cliche as it may be - this book for me was truly worth its weight in gold. Best thirty dollar investment of my life.

Just wanted a reference to learn the basics on these three topics. It gave me all that I needed to get my website up and running. The examples helped a lot. I ended up getting the book from the company library as well as using the Kindle version. It was tough finding the section that I needed on the Kindle which has nothing to do with the book itself.

I bought this book recently to supplement a very outdated textbook that I was using for a class. It helped me to complete my projects. The textbook (PHP Programming with MySQL by Don Gosselin) used examples that were deprecated, and this book is way more up to date than that one, so I definitely got my money's worth. I have mainly focused on the PHP and mysql sections of the book. The book seems to be aimed at people with little or no programming experience. That is no necessarily a negative, but I personally would have liked it to have gone into a little more depth or shown at least a few advanced techniques (I understand that it is a very long book and they couldn't include everything). I look forward to learning more about Javascript and HTML5. This book also covers Ajax a bit. The book is very clearly written and easy to understand. I would definitely recommend it for beginners. I am not sure how the code examples are since I have not had to use them yet.Regardless of what book you choose, PHP is a wonderful language to learn. Web programming used to bore me because HTML didn't "do" anything. Learning PHP allows you to actually make a useful and dynamic website, and HTML5 has some pretty awesome new features as well. It is an exciting time to be a programmer or a web designer.

Great book. Most of my programming experience had been with java and objective c and I struggled learning php,html,and mysql. The book did a great job of filling the holes in my knowledge.

Good thick book!. Exactly what I was looking for in building a dynamic website.

Amazing.Loved the conduit of book.Absolutely amazing.

Good starter book. Leads to more in depth books on each subject.

There are a ton of books out there on this stuff, and a lot of information online. Some of it is wrong, a lot of it is only for beginners, and a lot is only for those who have already been using these technologies for years. This book strikes a much better balance than others I have seen of not assuming too much and not stopping at too elementary a level. That said, I do wish it went on past an early intermediate level. Again and again I found myself starting with this book and then leaving it behind to go figure things out on my own because it was clear it was only going to go so far. In summary -- a better range than most, but not as complete as one might like. If you are struggling to find a good book on these topics, this is a good one, but not a great one.