Slashdot has a new book review today of the McGraw-Hill/Osborne title "How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL" (by Vikram Vaswani).

When it comes to creating a dynamic Web site with data store capabilities, the site developer can choose from many technologies, including PHP and MySQL. The combination of the two is rapidly emerging as a favorite, partly because they work well together, and partly because they are both available under open-source licenses. As a result, technical book publishers are cranking out a growing number of high-priced tomes that try to cover all of the details of either technology, or both. But for the developer just getting started in either one, there is a new title that could prove more accessible: Vikram Vaswani's How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL, published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne.

The review seems favorible, but notes that, despite the title, it does not "tell one how to do everything with PHP and MySQL". In fact, it assumes that the reader already has some knowledge of HTML and maybe even a bit of PHP before things ever start out. It does, however, provide a good resource for the budding PHP developer to stretch their wings and glide into the world of database-driven sites.