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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very well written. It's a very thorough introduction to PHP5, and helps you install Apache and MySQL painlessly so you can start writing code very quickly. It has lots of practical advice and code examples, and shows you how to download useful well-written PHP from a free online repository (PEAR) which has links to other similar sites. I wouldn't recommend this book for an absolute beginner, you will want some sort of programming experience to fully appreciate the book, the author assumes you know a little about HTML, OOP, and a scripting language. This was my first PHP book and it got me started very quickly. <br/><br/>The book didn't mention this but if you are installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a Windows box I suggest you look at XAMPP, they have an installer that makes it extremely easy.]]></body>
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