04 Jan
Free PHP eBook Update
I am going to be revising my Free PHP eBook. There have been almost 200 downloads, which I think is good for something that I created on the fly - I am hoping then when I revise it, I will begin to get some more downloads and feedback.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Excellent detail, well written. Exactly what the newbie seems to need. One of the things I like best is, when it describes something it doesn’t go on to attempt to “confuse the reader with facts!”. By that I mean, when it talks about “echo” say, that’s all it talks about and NOT the myriad other ways of displaying sometihng to the screen as most articles seem to do; for that info you want a reference, not a learning to code guide. IMO anyway..
Thanks!
April 6th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I’m afraid I have to take back my initial accolades on the site’s content. In the first form lesson, the Submit line is incorrect and does not create the button, the Action link doesn’t work but gives an error it can not find the formoutput.php. Tested both locally and on my web site, just to be sure.
Further investigation unearthed other, more serious errors in the following pages also - this makes the book, IMO, not reasonable nor acceptable. I should have looked closer in the beginning I guess. Very disappointed.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Tom
I am sorry that you have found your experience to be so dissatisfying. I’m really not sure about why your form isn’t working - if you copy-and-pasted the code, that might be causing the problem. You want to make sure that all your double-quotes and special are correctly encoded, so it’s important that you do not copy-and-paste the code out of the PDF, as that can cause a clash.
As an example, I have created a functioning version of the form (Lesson 4 from the PHP eBook) here:
http://www.prointerneter.com/phpebook1/form1input.php
Thanks for taking the time to leave your comments, it really is helpful to get feedback.
-Chris