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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9781590595527
Edition: 2
ISBN: 1590595521
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 952
Publication Date: January 23, 2006
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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Book Description - Essentially three books in one, provides thorough introductions to the PHP language, MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
- Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as providing an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted email, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a Web interface.
- Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapters introducing triggers, stored procedures, and views.
From the Back Cover
Interested in becoming a master of the PHP language and MySQL database but don't know where to begin? This bestselling book ranks among the most thorough and practical guides in print, covering all of the key concepts and features, and showing you how to effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to build powerful websites.
The book begins with a vast overview of PHP's capabilities, starting with a survey of the installation and configuration process on both the Windows and Linux platforms. Next, several chapters are devoted to basic PHP concepts, including variables, datatypes, arrays, functions, string manipulation, and processing user input. Other key PHP topics are also covered, including PEAR, session handling, LDAP integration, the Smarty templating engine, Web services, and PDO.
Next up is a presentation of MySQL's key features. You're first guided through MySQL's installation and configuration process, and are presented with an introduction to its storage engines, datatypes, administration utilities, security features, and data import/export facilities. New MySQL 5-specific chapters have been added in this edition, covering triggers, stored procedures, and views. Along the way, you'll gain insight into PHP's assortment of MySQL functions (using both the mysql and mysqli extensions), and learn how to create and execute queries, perform searches, and carry out key database tasks from within your Web application.
What You Will Learn from This Book - Install and configure Apache, PHP and MySQL on both Windows and Linux
- Accept and process information submitted via HTML forms
- Authenticate users and track user preferences and data using PHP's session-handling capabilities
- Process Web-based file uploads using the HTTP_Upload PEAR package
- Create your own RSS aggregator using Magpie, and process XML files in amazingly efficient fashion using SimpleXML
- Use both command-line and graphical MySQL clients to effectively manage your data
- Secure the MySQL server, creating roles and restricting access even at very granular levels
- Effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to create dynamic, data-driven web applications
Who This Book Is For
This book is for the budding web developer searching for a powerful and low-cost solution to building flexible, scalable websites.
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I'm a sucker for a good price and I bought this book hoping that in the 1000+ pages I could start to learn PHP. I did - but I also quickly got frustrated and distracted by the author's complete refusal to explain ANYTHING with conciseness.
This is a reference book, not something you'd want to read cover to cover.
Boring examples, wordy discussions - the authors seems to have been more interested in boosting page count than anything else :(
Another bloated PHP book was Larry Ullman's Visual QuickPro. Are there any php tech authors who know how to write??
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This is a great book, it covers a ton of material in total but does not totally cover anyone particular subject. I will not list all the chapters another reviewer did that already, but I have over 30 books on php and this one was on my wishlist here on amazon for a long time.
This book does have examples and they are working examples if you manually type them and follow along. The examples however are not long and do not go in depth or build upon previous examples, each example is just long enough to demonstrate the subject. This to me is better than the online php manuals, because it makes more sense. The manual uses generic variables and naming conventions, such as foo and bar and foobar, $a, $b, $c etc, which for a new programmer is confusing. This book uses real names and puts the material into a perspective that most people can better envision. Like examples about employees.
This is more of a reference. It even says in the introduction"novices and seasoned ... Read More
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This book covers so much topics and assumes the reader is new to PHP. Excellent for PHP beginners and as lookup reference for intermediate/advanced programmers. Definitely a must to have book in your desk.
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Some books you can tell are a labor of love by someone who knows their subject well and is really trying to impart that to his readers. This is one of those books. It covers a lot of ground, with a lot of code snippets. As someone who's new to PHP and MySql, it's been very useful -- I can pretty count on finding the information I need there -- explanations along with code examples so it's easy to both understand it and see the code.
Originally I gave it 5 stars, but after using it for a while and especially getting into the SQL half more, I've downgraded it because it's surprisingly not thorough in how to drive MySQL from PHP. A number of times I could find what needs to be done in SQL but not see how to accomplish it with PHP code, that I had to look up elsewhere. To be sure there are two good chapters on just this, but given the title and audience for the book, you'd think it would be a constant throughout. For example, try to find out how to Insert or Update database rows ... Read More
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Beginning PHP and MYSQL is definitely for the beginner. That is exactly where I am at. The book describes in detail both of these technologies.
I recommend this book if you are looking at creating PHP pages and interfacing them with MySql...
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