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Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson ISBN: 0-672-31784-2 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (125 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In short: A Wonderful book.
Comment: I purchased this book after having carefully studdied many books about the subject. I fell for this book, simply because it got the best rating and when I went to my local book store and scanned it, I had to own it. It starts out with a PHP crach course (syntax and semantics), moves over to cover string manipulation, expressions, function calls etc. All in all, very simple stuff that you should be able to grasp easily, are you known to other high level programming or scripting languages. Then you get introduced to basic database design, dynamic image generation etc. What makes the book special however, is that the whole second half of the book, shows you real world examples of things like session control, user authentication, shopping cart management, a mailing list manager, an email web-interface, web-forums and more. This second part is what you really will learn from! The book should be called "Real World PHP and MySQL development." The only little thing that I miss in the book, is a reference list of all common functions for PHP. I am not complaining though, the book does not state to be a reference book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Well written introduction to two vital products
Comment: PHP and MySQL are probably the most pervasive add-ons to Apache web servers across the web. Certainly they are both easy to acquire and common on a large range of web hosting systems, including several extremely low cost ones. They also fit together extremely well.
This book demonstrates how well. It starts out with a quick course in PHP (OK, 160 pages is hardly quick but it seems to move along at a good pace), follows it up with a brief look at MySQL before a short digression on E-commerce leads into building authentication and secure systems with the two tools (a marvellous place to start when you're thinking about commercial-grade web systems.)
After some more advanced PHP the book then goes on to give marvellous examples of web applications, a shopping cart, content management system, email service, mailing list manager and web forums. Finally it has a good chapter on generating PDF files using PHP.
Overall the book is well written, well structured and can take someone with some programming knowledge and no experience with PHP and MySQL all the way to the development of full scale database backed web applications.
That's not to say that the book doesn't have some shortcomings. You will want to have some program design experience and preferably some experience with database design as these are given short shrift. The book also lacks examples and discussion of some of the less database intensive parts of PHP and some of the more obscure taks you may need to perform. However it does provide an excellent introduction to these two products for someone, like myself, who already has some experience. It must also be added that there are some typographical errors in some of the code examples, not too many and not too serious but in this day and age why can't authors cut and paste from running and debugged code, Kernighan and Plauger managed it more than twenty years ago in "Software Tools."
I would recommend purchasing this book and "PHP Developer's Cookbook" for the perfect PHP bookshelf. If you wish a fuller understanding of MySQL and database design then add "MySQL" by Paul DuBois and Michael Widenius.
I rate it as four stars rather than five, only because it is not perfect and so many others have given it five.
Rating: 4
Summary: 10 Thing I Hate About You
Comment: 10 Things I hate About You is a modern time Shakespeare story by David Levithan.It's about a boy who goes about getting the girl he wants no matter what it takes.
The main character is Cameron James, the new kid in school who likes the most popular girl in Padua High School,Bianca Stratford, except there's a couple of things that are in his way, for example, Kat Stratford, Biancas older sister. Bianca's father won't let Bianca date until Kat dates. Kat used to be a popular pretty girl but for some reason became a social outcast and refers to school as a prison. The other thing in Cameron's way is Joey Donner, Joey is a self centered, and not the brightest, teenaged model.Bianca likes Joey. Cameron's new best friend is Michael. Michael isn't a loser but isn't all that cool. He knows all the crowds in Padua High School.
To get to know Bianca, Cameron finds out she needs a tutor for French. Cameron decides to become her tutor even though he doesn't know any French. Cameron wanted to take Bianca out really bad and that's when he gets his brilliant idea to get her on a date. Cameron pays an older teenager named Patrick Verona. Patrick is a social outcast too who doesn't care what people think. It took a while to get Patrick to agree but it he did. Just then Cameron realized he didn't have any money to pay Patrick. So Cameron comes up with a plan to trick someone dumb enough to give them there money. The first name that came to his mind was Joey Donner. Cameron got Joey make a deal with Patrick that if Patrick took out Kat that he would pay him as long as he got to go out with Bianca. But tables turn when Bianca starts to like Cameron.
On the first date Cameron and Bianca went out to a party go which turned bad for Bianca, Cameron, Joey, Patrick and Kat. I would suggest reading this book to find out what happens at the prom, other dates, school, and if Kat finds out about the deal.
I really liked this book because it is a modern day story. This could happen to many people. This book is a funny and serious story. I gave this book 4 stars because it never stopped being exciting. It was funny and fun to read. The chapters are named by whoever is telling the story. Some are long and some are only a sentence short. The book is only 170 pages long. When you read it, it goes by fast because the book keeps your attention. Its good with details and most of the comments in the book are humorous. It's a book that I couldn't put down. It kept you wondering what was going to happen next. You should read this book if you want a book that you just can't put down.
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Title: PHP/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Andy Harris ISBN: 1931841322 Publisher: Learning Express Pub. Date: 04 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: MySQL, Second Edition by Paul DuBois ISBN: 0735712123 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide by Larry Ullman ISBN: 0321186486 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 21 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Professional PHP4 Programming by Deepak Thomas, Jon Parise, Harish Rawat, James Moore, et al ISBN: 1861006918 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 17 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PHP Developer's Cookbook (2nd Edition) by Sterling Hughes, Andrei Zmievski ISBN: 0672323257 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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