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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. Th
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Paperback, 796 pages
Published
May 23rd 2004
by O'Reilly Media
(first published 2002)
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This book is great when it comes to learning PHP syntax, fundamentals, and concepts; such as conditions, comparisons, functions, PHP's OOP, and connecting to a MySQL database. If your interested in PHP and want to see what it offers compared to other web scripting languages or you're already familiar with the concepts of programming I feel that this book will be a great start. Thought I would not recommend this book to someone just beginning programming since it may become a little confusing. It
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Sep 05, 2007
Rob
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coding novices looking to learn the webdev fundamentals
Alternative title: "How to Teach Yourself Enough WebApp Fundamentals to Convince Yourself You Can Do the Job."
The approach is a good enough one. They give you a project (a wine store) and you slowly build its various components using PHP for the front-end and MySQL for the back. It's written in such a way that even though the particulars and mechanics center on these two specific technologies you should (if you're reasonably intelligent) be able to transfer those lessons easily to another enviro ...more
The approach is a good enough one. They give you a project (a wine store) and you slowly build its various components using PHP for the front-end and MySQL for the back. It's written in such a way that even though the particulars and mechanics center on these two specific technologies you should (if you're reasonably intelligent) be able to transfer those lessons easily to another enviro ...more
Sep 11, 2007
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PHP and MySQL go hand in hand; the former has been carefully adapted, through the efforts of the open-source community, to the latter. For situations that require dynamic content but don't merit the complexity and development time of Java or .NET enterprise applications, the PHP language and the MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly. That's the point Hugh Williams and David Lane make in Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, which combines language tutorials with application desi
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it's a solid introduction to PHP and MSQL. The book delves into what I consider intermediate PHP (session management, advanced authentication) without much of a transition however, and unless you have a strong Web dev/HTML background, the material gets a bit sticky and you are left on your own to resolve some gaping holes. Add to this that some of the example code simply doesn't work and happens to be conveniently left off the web resource. That's just poor technical editing which sucks when she
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Well, it's setting in my desk at work, so I figured I better add it. This is a pretty dated book, and I was hoping it might be useful on my current project at work, but I haven't actually opened it yet. This may be on a shelf at my garage sale this weekend, come to think of it . . .
It bought it in order to improve my programming skills, but the book is often confusing, and I'd often look up some of the stuff on the internet anyway.
This book got me started in web programming. I've moved on to Django now, but I would recommend this for the fundamentals.
Jun 06, 2010
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Quite interesting, learned a couple neat tricks ;)
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