I Hate PHP Ebook - Beginner’s Guide to PHP and MySQL - PLR. OK, I don’t REALLY hate PHP, but there have been days I strongly dislike it. Thank you for purchasing this guide to PHP and MySQL. I hope you get some enjoyment out of it, and learn a few things!

First of all, my background and why this book came to be...

       Most PHP/MySQL books on the market that I have read were not written for the novice. To be honest, even I  struggled with “PHP For Dummies”, although I’ve been working with HTML and another programming environment, ColdFusion, for years. So, WHY was PHP so hard for me? I think it was a number of things, but most of all because with HTML and ColdFusion experience, I was used to a TAG based language. For everything there was a tag, like this:

...which is a ColdFusion tag to output processed information. PHP is not based on tags like that. No, PHP more resembles a (ugh) Programming Language. If you are intimidated by that, never fear - I’m going to do my best to explain the examples in plain english!

So, who is this book for?

       This book is for the lonely people who can’t get a da...hold on...wrong book...”I Hate PHP” is for webmasters and designers who have always wondered what PHP could do for them; someone who wants to “do” some PHP and not outsource it. It is best to be familiar with HTML and writing / deciphering HTML code. You don’t need to be a top-notch “I do it all in Notepad” kinda person - just being able to open up a text editor and understand the code is enough. Copy / Paste knowledge is helpful too.