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I was pleased that Sams asked me to take over production of this book. The 7th edition, by Michael Morrison (author of editions one through seven), was published in 2005—that's almost a decade in "Internet Time," meaning that the text was quite out of date. The 8th edition is almost a complete re-write and re-organization of the content, although some examples have been kept as an homage to the previous author. But for all intents and purposes, this is a different book from the previous seven editions—and not just because it's in color! The goal of this book is to give you all the skills you need to create a modern, standards-compliant web site in just 24 short, easy lessons. This book covers XHTML and CSS, and HTML 5 where applicable (although it is not a how-to for HTML 5). The technical stuff is not enough, so this book also includes the advice you need when setting up a web site to achieve your goals. Key details—designing an effective page layout, uploading with FTP software, organizing and managing multiple pages, and SEO—are all covered in enough depth to get you beyond the snags that often frustrate beginners.

In the two years between the 3rd and 4th editions, little has fundamentally changed: PHP 5 and MySQL 5 are solid, stable, and power a great number of the Web-based applications we use everyday. Many hosting providers now offer PHP 5 by default, thus ensuring that anyone who wants to use PHP 5 and MySQL 5 can do so. As with all incarnations of this book, you'll learn the concepts necessary for configuring and managing Apache, the basics of programming in PHP, and methods for using and administering MySQL. The overall goal of the book is to provide you with the foundation you need to understand how seamlessly these technologies integrate with one another and to give you practical knowledge of how to integrate them.

The "In a Snap" series offer[s] a unique 2-color format allowing readers to solve problems by identifying individual tasks quickly." IOW, there are a bunch of numbered tasks with lots of pictures, tips, notes, and step-by-step instructions. This book contains short lessons designed to get the user started in blogging using Blogger. The lessons cover everything from understanding the concept of blogging to maintaining your own blog utilizing a custom template, comments, trackbacks, photos, blogrolls and more. Also included are 20 or so pages on HTML and CSS. With the new version of Blogger (12/06), much of this book is now obsolete.

Plone is open source technology for Web and content publishing, built on the Zope application server. Plone facilitates content creation, publication and retrieval within large and complex Web sites through built-in tools and a customizable (and highly usable) interface. This book is a hands-on guide for the Plone/Zope novice—it's intended audience is the content manager or administrator who wishes to deploy such a system but has little knowledge of all things Plone/Zope. Please see the example chapter, Using Your New Plone Site to get a feel for the tone of the book. As this is an outdated book, I do not recommend you purchase it.

This is technically a third edition of PHP Fast & Easy, with extra chapters and updated code based on PHP 5. This book is written in a step-by-step, visual fashion and is geared toward beginners using PHP and MySQL. The reader is shown methods for installation, then moves into creating simple scripts, followed by database applications.

Although this book has PHP 5 in its title, many of the new features of PHP 5 involve elements which are outside the scope of this book (i.e. OOP). If you are looking for an book that specifically deals with PHP 5 in depth, this isn't it! As this is an outdated book, I do not recommend you purchase it.

The first edition of this book was one of the very first PHP books published, in early 2000. It is geared toward beginners, covering the same general set of information as PHP5 Fast & Easy but with a different writing style and book structure. As with all of my books, this book was never intended to be the one and only PHP book on your bookshelf, but rather to provide a foundation for future studies. As this is an outdated book, I do not recommend you purchase either edition.

This book was written for beginners, or people coming to MySQL from a different type of database. Some elements of MySQL 4.0 are covered (transactions, for example), but the main focus is on taking the reader step by step through using MySQL, from the ground up. It's NOT a reference, it doesn't cover everything you need to know about MySQL but it does provide a solid foundation for getting started with MySQL. As this is an outdated book, I do not recommend you purchase it.

This book was geared toward beginners working in a Web-based development environment. The lessons on programming with PHP assume no previous knowledge of the language, and the database-related lessons assumed no previous experience with a database. Some of the text of this book comes directly from my book STY MySQL in 24 Hours, Matt Zandstra's book STY PHP in 24 Hours and STY Apache 2 in 24 Hours by Daniel Lopez. This book gave rise to STY PHP, MySQL and Apache All-in-One. As this is an outdated book, I do not recommend you purchase it.

The first edition was published in July 2000, and the second edition (with extra chapters and code based on the new PHP superglobals) in July 2002. As part of a "Fast & Easy Web Development" series, this book was written in a very step-by-step, visual fashion and was geared toward those just getting started with PHP. This book gave rise to PHP5 Fast & Easy Web Development. As this is an outdated book, I do not recommend you purchase either edition.