Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76 EAN: 9780131875081 ISBN: 0131875086 Label: Prentice Hall PTR Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 912 Publication Date: December 02, 2006 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Sales Rank: 302399 Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
Quickly master dynamic, database-driven Web development—no experience necessary!
Even if you’re completely new to PHP, MySQL, and Web database development, this book will guide you through every step of building powerful, database-driven, dynamic Web sites. Direct from the world’s top scripting instructor, Ellie Quigley, PHP and MySQL by Example illuminates every concept with tested code examples, screen shots showing program output, and clear, line-by-line explanations.
Classroom-tested in Ellie Quigley’s Silicon Valley training courses and at Marko Gargenta’s Marakana training company in San Francisco, this book takes you from the simplest PHP scripting and SQL querying techniques all the way to dynamic, database driven Web site construction with PHP and MySQL. From simple fill-in forms to program security and debugging, it’s the only PHP/MySQL book you’ll ever need!
This book covers
Complete PHP fundamentals, including operators, strings, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and more
PHP QuickStart for more advanced readers—makes you productive with PHP in the space of just fifteen book pages
Essential Web development techniques, from file handling to validating user input with regular expressions
Powerful PHP features, including user-defined functions and self-processing PHP Forms
Day-to-day MySQL administration
A complete SQL tutorial for creating queries, retrieving data, and writing data with MySQL
Session management and cookies
Object Oriented PHP
Best practices for using PHP and MySQL together
Nearly 100,000 professionals and power users have relied on Ellie Quigley’s books to master scripting languages. With PHP and MySQL by Example, you can, too. And once you’ve become an expert, you’ll turn to this book constantly as your go-to source for reliable answers, solutions, and code.
About the CD-ROM
The CD-ROM contains versions of PHP and MySQL for Windows and UNIX/Linux, plus a comprehensive code library for creating your own sites and database-enabled Web applications, including this book’s powerful Art Gallery case study application.
Lab Solutions
Solutions to the end-of-chapter labs are available at www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0131875086.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - File under "comedy"
Here's everything you'll ever need to know about the only PHP book you'll ever need:
1. This isn't it.
2. Zend has outsourced all of their online training nonsense to one of this book's authors, so if you have any doubt as to whether or not his bountiful errors and omissions were worth paying $40 for, take care not to make the mistake of paying $1,000+ for more of the same.
3. All the 5 star reviews are fake.
Rating: - Too many errors!
The book and cd code are error prone. The co-author writes a five star review trying to come off as an instructor in a php boot camp. Come on!! This book should not even have been published in this state.
Rating: - Well Written, But Too Many Errors
I purchased this book for a class and have been going through the examples on my own. Several of the examples have typos that result in the example scripts not running. Some of the errors are as blatant as leaving out closing brackets on HTML tags. Others I still haven't figured out. There is no errata online, which is disappointing.
A programming book written for beginners really needs to have extra proofing done by the author (a typical proofer in a publishing house wouldn't understand ... Read More
Rating: - This book was not reviewed before printing
This book contains many, many, many errors. The book itself gives the URL for the publisher's website, claiming the errata is posted there. It isn't. Shame on the reviewers and on the editor for allowing this to go to print with so many mistakes.
On a positive note, finding and correcting the errors has helped me learn the material more thoroughly, and I'm finding there are some other great books out there on PHP and MySQL.
Rating: - Great layout but contains numerous errors and zero support.
I purchased this book for the retail price of $49.99 at my local bookstore. I did this based on the preface that states an errata, as well as the lab solutions, can be found online. Since I know all code books contain some errors, I usually look to see if these errors, when discovered, have been posted on the book's site.
Well, even though the book states there there is an errata, truth and in fact, there isn't. When I emailed the publisher they stated "Thank you for purchasing our book. I'm ... Read More
- File under "comedy"
- Well Written, But Too Many Errors
