Kevin's Book is Released: Get Your Copy Today

**Theiggsta** · Oct 5, 2001, 18:22

im curious...since this book touches on building a e-commerce application, does it talk about security?

if so, im buying it right now!

**Matt Mickiewicz** · Oct 5, 2001, 19:41

A complete table of contents can be found on the book sales page.

**Dan_K** · Oct 8, 2001, 04:57

Would Kevins book allow me to build and maintain a car selling website through the use of databases?

I don't have any experience of PHP or SQL, iam really good with Microsoft Access.

-Dan

**uatt** · Oct 9, 2001, 10:47

"This card should not have an issue number."

not accept my visa card....

Where should I complain...

my address
uatt@china.com

**Matt Mickiewicz** · Oct 9, 2001, 10:54

order@sitepoint.com

If you have problems with WorldPay you can also pay via PayPal.... Visa should work without a problem though if you entered all the information accurately.

You probably should have left the issue number blank when filling out the form.

**uatt** · Oct 9, 2001, 11:10

Yes, this is the problem
"Issue Number (Switch/Solo only)"
My card has no such number..
Is it not 1 ?
or something else..

**JAMJAMMO** · Oct 10, 2001, 12:16

i do not have a credit card.
can i possibly pay with a money order?
i know it will take longer that way.

it there any hope for me?

**Matt Mickiewicz** · Oct 10, 2001, 19:28

Originally posted by uatt
Yes, this is the problem
"Issue Number (Switch/Solo only)"
My card has no such number..
Is it not 1 ?
or something else..

Try again and this time leave the field completely blank.

**uatt** · Oct 11, 2001, 07:29

'your payment was successful'

well...
leave it blank is ok...

So hard to buy a book ...

**totenmaske** · Oct 18, 2001, 20:13

...ordered my copy! I've got great aspirations for my site and a flat file system is just becoming to cumbersome to maintain! I've been looking for a "PHP for Dummies" level book in stores and haven't been able to find one. Looks like Kevin's book may be just what I was looking for! < I really, really hope so since I rarely fork over that much money for a book >

**Mark Harbottle** · Oct 18, 2001, 20:23

totenmaske: The book will serve you just fine!

If not we'll happily refund your money.

Mark.

**pulsorocker** · Oct 19, 2001, 09:02

How long does take the book to arrive? I ordered mine on October 6 and haven't received it yet.

**Kevin Yank** · Oct 19, 2001, 11:59

pulsorocker,

Send an email to order@sitepoint.com with the date of your order and the name on the credit card used for the order and I should be able to determine its status.

**pulsorocker** · Oct 19, 2001, 13:27

Originally posted by kyank
pulsorocker,

Send an email to order@sitepoint.com with the date of your order and the name on the credit card used for the order and I should be able to determine its status.

I just received a call that it arrived today. thanks

**Kevin Yank** · Oct 19, 2001, 13:32

So impatient.

**pulsorocker** · Oct 19, 2001, 14:42

Originally posted by kyank
So impatient.

hehe... I was desperate to have the book in my hands. I almost couldn't wait the two weeks.

**Adam P.** · Oct 19, 2001, 16:27

Look here! http://www.chpbooks.com/

How cool!

**Maelstrom** · Oct 27, 2001, 22:08

I am surprised people are complaining about the price. I live in Canada (est price is going to be around 55$ canadian) and that is cheap for a reference manual. I typically spend upwards of 80 to 100$.

**Dean Wilson** · Oct 28, 2001, 09:46

I got my book the other day.. yay -- I have a mission on Kevin's book, to go front to back in 5 days

Every book I get on computing has the smallest text in it, like my eyes have a zoom in feature. With Kevin's book the text is 1-2 sizes bigger which makes it easy to read and understand.

A+

**Kevin Yank** · Oct 28, 2001, 10:26

Glad you approve!

**14zero** · Oct 31, 2001, 15:30

In chapter 3 online as well as in the code in the zip file i get this error on my server

Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot/serverscripting/PHP/chapter3/samplepage.php on line 12

Is anyone else getting this,

why is it doing that?

Brendon

PS. just bought the book, cant wait

**Kevin Yank** · Oct 31, 2001, 15:43

This is a known typo in the first edition of the book and code archive. Check out the errata page for the book and download the latest version of the code archive for the corrected code. I'll update the online version of the chapter immediately.

**JAMJAMMO** · Oct 31, 2001, 18:05

Originally posted by kyank
... Check out the errata page ... I'll update the online version of the chapter immediately.

WHAAA ???
what's errata?
and there's an online version of the book?
where?

**Kevin Yank** · Oct 31, 2001, 18:31

erratum -- fancy latin word for a mistake

errata -- fancy latin word for more than one mistake

errata page -- fancy Web page where we list the mistakes that have been found in the book

The "online version" of the book consists of the introduction and the first four chapters. It all starts here.