This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine
Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL
Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL
Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions
The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Help - I'm in Purgatory reading this Bible
This book doesn't give the nuts and bolts. There are no real examples, it's all a bit esoteric for me. I have web experience and database experience, but this book hasn't put it together.
I should have bought a "For Dummies" book.
Rating: - Worth every penny
Most of the Bible series of books are worth the money you pay for them, and this one is no exception.
Good informative book, great for the beginner and a good read for the advanced.
Not good for reference, but then it isn't supposed to be.
Rating: - Poorly organized
I purchased this book off the shelf before reading any reviews. I was looking for a specific solution for one of Viking Water's clients, so I reviewed the books by looking through their indices. Of all the PHP books on a well-stocked shelf, this was the only one to tackle dynamic drop-down lists, which is my heartburn of the moment.
After reading through 1/4 of it (skimming in some cases), I agree with other reviewers that it may not be the best way to learn PHP from scratch. If you're ... Read More
Rating: - confusing book. Not well written, probably made in a hurry.
This book often uses concepts and code explained only in following chapters. I should have read the other (bad) reviews on Amazon before buying my copy in a library. Unfortunately I was in hurry. Now I am at page 202 and I am not sure whether I should continue or quit and wait 8 more days to get a better book.
Rating: - educational AND entertaining
This book is not meant to be a profound cache of code-snippets. Indeed there are some coding errors. I freely admit that I learned raw html "OJT" years ago, with little reason or time to learn anything more involved that wasn't required of me. I was a designer, typesetter and layout hanger, not a programmer. I have no experience in C or in Java. Call me a programmer groupie, I have dozens of family, friends and acquaintances who program miracles daily in all different alleys while I play a "very ... Read More
- Help - I'm in Purgatory reading this Bible
- Worth every penny
- confusing book. Not well written, probably made in a hurry.
- educational AND entertaining
