I think this is a great book for beginners especially those curious about PostgreSQL.
— Joe Topjian, Adminspotting.net
Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. Youll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.
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Rating: - VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
Are you a professional or novice to PHP and PostgreSQL 8? If you are, then this book is definitely for you. Authors W. Jason Gilmore and Robert H. Treat, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that offers users an impressive platform for building high-powered Web applications.
Gilmore and Treat, begin by acquainting you with the basics of PHP offering insight into its roots, popularity, and users. Then, the authors show you how to install and configure PHP, as well as, the Apache ... Read More
Rating: - Supposed to be a PHP-PostgreSql not Smarty-Pear
What's annoying about this book is that I bought it to learn more about PHP and PostgreSQL but the authors decide to use Smarty and PearDB throughout instead. If I wanted to learn those two I would have bought books about them. Smarty and PearDB is used in every single piece of code they do which is extremely annoying. I don't want to learn Smarty or PearDB. If you're trying to learn PHP and PostgreSQL don't buy this book. If you want to learn Smarty and PearDB this book might be for you.
Rating: - Old Hat
To me, this book was a disappointment. I had expected much more in the way of integration between PostgreSQL and PHP. Some of the questions that I had expected an answer for, was like: What is considered 'best practice' as to how to interface with PostgreSQL from PHP? How to write reusable queries?
Instead, the book is divided in two disparate parts: One is about installing and configuring PHP, along with a rewrite of parts of the online PHP manual; the second part is about installing and ... Read More
Rating: - Beginning PHP Not Beginning Programming
I read this edition after Gilmore's earlier book on PHP and MySQL, so let me quote the pertinent parts of that review and augment with appropriate comments:
A beginning PHP book, not a beginning programming book. The subtitle, 'From Novice to Professional', can be a tad misleading for the novice coder. A beginning programming book covers a lot of material that this book assumes the reader already understands. Many software books include a 'Who Is This Book For' section that offers some guidance ... Read More
Rating: - Definitive Reference
If you are like me, you have probably dabbled in PHP and MySQL driven CMS solutions, simply because that combination is so prevalent. I consider myself to be primarily a front-end developer / graphic designer, and am not terribly interested in knowing every server-side language there is, so long as whatever I am using can get the job done. Suffice it to say that while I am eager to learn and expand my horizons, my exposure to more than LAMP has been limited.
So, when Jason Gilmore sent me a review ... Read More
- VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
- Supposed to be a PHP-PostgreSql not Smarty-Pear
- Old Hat
