Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9780672329166
Edition: 4
ISBN: 0672329166
Label: Addison Wesley
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Number Of Items: 2
Number Of Pages: 1008
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Studio: Addison Wesley

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Editorial Review:

Product 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.

Amazon.co.uk Review:
PHP and MySQL Web Development introduces readers (who are assumed to have little or no experience with the title subjects) to PHP and MySQL for the purpose of creating dynamic Internet sites. It teaches the same skills as introductory Active Server Pages (ASP) and ColdFusion books--technologies which address the same niche.

Authors Luke Welling and Laura Thomson's technique aims to get readers going on their own projects as soon as possible. They present easily digestible sections on specific technical processes--"Accessing Array Contents" and "Using Encryption with PHP" are two examples. Each section centres on a sample program that strips the task at hand down to its essentials, enabling the reader to fit the process into his or her own solutions as required. Tables that list options and other nuggets of reference material appear as well, but the many examples and the authors' commentary on them take centre stage.

For reference material on MySQL, have a look at Paul DuBois's MySQL. On the PHP side, Web Application Development with PHP4 is excellent. --David Wall

Topics covered:

• The MySQL Database Server (for both Unix and Windows)
• Accessing MySQL Databases Through PHP Scripting (the letters don't really stand for anything)
• Database Creation and Modification
• PHP Tricks in Order of Increasing Complexity--everything from basic SQL queries to secure transactions for commerce
• Authentication
• Network Connectivity
• Session Management
• Content Customisation

Rating: - 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 ... Read More

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Rating: - 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.

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Rating: - very useful
Im still using that book and it looks pretty interesting. very useful and highly recommended book.

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Rating: - 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 ... Read More

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Rating: - 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 ... Read More

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