PHP and MySQL Web Development (Developer's Library)
Published: 2008-10-01
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pages: 1008 (Paperback)
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pages: 1008 (Paperback)
New from: £16.90
Used from: £14.79
Description
Aims to teach you to develop dynamic, secure, commerical Web sites. This fourth edition reflects the changing landscape of MySQL and PHP. It incorporates changes in the 5.1 specs of PHP and MySQL. It also covers topics such as Ajax, social networking sites, security concerns, and the PEAR repository of PHP extensions and applications.
Aims to teach you to develop dynamic, secure, commerical Web sites. This fourth edition reflects the changing landscape of MySQL and PHP. It incorporates changes in the 5.1 specs of PHP and MySQL. It also covers topics such as Ajax, social networking sites, security concerns, and the PEAR repository of PHP extensions and applications.
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Product Reviews
The cover sums it up
Caveat: I have not finished it yet.
This book progresses at a sensible pace and is generally easy to follow. Although, for those with no programming experience it may be a struggle.
As my PHP is self-taught, I bought this book to reduce the number gaps in my knowledge. I am often pleasantly surprised with little discoveries, and the occasional PHP epiphany.
However, I find the fictional car business website, described in the examples, very annoying. It is written in American-English. As an English reader, I cringe every time I see the word 'tire'. I am sure there must be a more language-neutral business to model. I accept that I am a pedant, but I find this very distracting. Interesting, I find that the general text to be well written.
But for this, I would have given it five-stars. So, if you are American or you don't care, this may be the one for you.
[2010-06-25]
Definitely not for the novice.
This book states that it is suitable for beginners yet it clearly assumes some previous knowledge of php. 30 pages in I find myself looking blankly at the page all to frequently having been baffled at what seems like a soup of meaningless words. I will be keeping this book as it is fairly well written and seems quite comprehensive, I look forward to getting back into it after I find a book that can hold my hand whilst I take baby steps.
[2010-06-15]
very useful
Im still using that book and it looks pretty interesting. very useful and highly recommended book.
[2010-02-25]
Great guide but intallations intructions lets it down (but that is everywhere)
Right - everything I have read in the chapters in this book has been well explained and had good accompanying examples. Except for the installation on Mac. This however is ubiquitos as I found out on my search so I can't slate the book for that, it seems everyone who should have it right had it wrong when i was looking. I eventually cobbled together the right thing taking bits from a few guides. If you are using a pc I would imagine there will be no problem. Though only half way through i am still happy to recommend it despite the installation problems with mysql.
[2009-10-04]
Excellent for learning PHP and MYSQL
Well written, well organised, clear, precise - not full of useless waffle like many guides - over 900 pages of solid information. I can highly recommend this book for beginners and experienced programmers.
I bought the book to help me quickly learn PHP for web development (I'm an experience programmer in other languages). I found the book to be very useful; it doesn't stop with simplistic basics, but discusses real development issues, like security for example. Also, although I am trained and experienced in SQL databases, I found the information provided for SQL syntax and using MYSQL with PHP pages clear and informative. I think this section would be especially useful for anyone new to SQL.
[2009-10-03]
The cover sums it up
Caveat: I have not finished it yet.
This book progresses at a sensible pace and is generally easy to follow. Although, for those with no programming experience it may be a struggle.
As my PHP is self-taught, I bought this book to reduce the number gaps in my knowledge. I am often pleasantly surprised with little discoveries, and the occasional PHP epiphany.
However, I find the fictional car business website, described in the examples, very annoying. It is written in American-English. As an English reader, I cringe every time I see the word 'tire'. I am sure there must be a more language-neutral business to model. I accept that I am a pedant, but I find this very distracting. Interesting, I find that the general text to be well written.
But for this, I would have given it five-stars. So, if you are American or you don't care, this may be the one for you.
[2010-06-25]
Definitely not for the novice.
This book states that it is suitable for beginners yet it clearly assumes some previous knowledge of php. 30 pages in I find myself looking blankly at the page all to frequently having been baffled at what seems like a soup of meaningless words. I will be keeping this book as it is fairly well written and seems quite comprehensive, I look forward to getting back into it after I find a book that can hold my hand whilst I take baby steps.
[2010-06-15]
very useful
Im still using that book and it looks pretty interesting. very useful and highly recommended book.
[2010-02-25]
Great guide but intallations intructions lets it down (but that is everywhere)
Right - everything I have read in the chapters in this book has been well explained and had good accompanying examples. Except for the installation on Mac. This however is ubiquitos as I found out on my search so I can't slate the book for that, it seems everyone who should have it right had it wrong when i was looking. I eventually cobbled together the right thing taking bits from a few guides. If you are using a pc I would imagine there will be no problem. Though only half way through i am still happy to recommend it despite the installation problems with mysql.
[2009-10-04]
Excellent for learning PHP and MYSQL
Well written, well organised, clear, precise - not full of useless waffle like many guides - over 900 pages of solid information. I can highly recommend this book for beginners and experienced programmers.
I bought the book to help me quickly learn PHP for web development (I'm an experience programmer in other languages). I found the book to be very useful; it doesn't stop with simplistic basics, but discusses real development issues, like security for example. Also, although I am trained and experienced in SQL databases, I found the information provided for SQL syntax and using MYSQL with PHP pages clear and informative. I think this section would be especially useful for anyone new to SQL.
[2009-10-03]