php with sql

This 'nathan' actually brings a very significant point to this issue.. about halfway down.
why can't people, while writing significant books for a significant subject, write with the intention to inform people of what you specifically writing about.

does anyone else know any cheap php/mysql books?

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1.0 out of 5 stars Laziest PHP book ever., December 31, 2005
By Nathan "p00kie" (Seattle WA) - See all my reviews
I won't pretend to debate this authors knowledge of the php language. For all I know he could be a genious with it. However the material is presented very poorly and lazily. The author frequently gives half-baked explainations of functions or concepts in the php language and then tells me if I want to learn more to goto the php documentation manual. NEWS FLASH! If I wanted to learn from the poorly written documentation I would have been doing that already. People buy these books for the purpose of getting in depth explainations that go beyond documentation. People don't like to be told to goto a website for more information. Is this a book about php? Or a book about which of the official php documentation files I should read? The author was just too lazy to explain things.
While I agree that using online documentation is necessary, he tells you to go online and read the documentation almost every other page. Very poor explainations, and it's a pain in the butt to keep switching between the book and the browser to get a full understanding of the concepts. Don't waste your money.
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