Thanks!

I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who have written in saying good words about this book. Thank you. Also just thanks to all of you that have bought the book. I certainly hope that it is helping you in your day-to-day programming. That was my goal.

Errata #1

And we have our first Errata:

On page 294 & 295, Listings 14.1.1 & 14.1.2 ... These are some sample code showing how to use PHP to access MySQL.

Unfortunately one of the column names used:
desc

Is a reserved word in MySQL. The simplest fix is just to change all references to that column from desc, to descr.

I've already done this to the online versions of the code, so you might just want to download them here:
Updated Listing 14.1.1
Updated Listing 14.1.2

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This is Elliott White III (though I go by Eli). One of the co-authors of the book.

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