Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 818 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 2nd Edition October 1, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0764549634
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764549632
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
How could the combination of PHP and MySQL--which is feature-rich, highly reliable combination, capable of dealing with large traffic volumes, and absolutely free of charge in most cases--be any better? In
MySQL/PHP Database Applications, Jay Greenspan and Brad Bulger explain how to work with the capable pair, primarily for applications you might use on a Web site. If you take the time to study the advice and work through your own tests of the concepts presented, it's pretty much certain that you'll walk away with the knowledge you need to do serious development work with the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server.
Rather than make up trivial programs just to illustrate aspects of the MySQL/PHP environment, this book features code snippets, each half a page or so in length, that illustrate the behavior of key code structures. For example, in explaining conditional statements in PHP, the book gives you a no-frills IF statement with real values in place. It's not always obvious how the code structures will behave in practice, but the book does a consistently good job of commenting intelligently on the place of each aspect of the language in a well-designed application. The latter half of the book attacks specific problems--a chat system, a guest book, and so on--and walks through the setup of MySQL and each important PHP function for each.
--David Wall Topics covered: The PHP server-side scripting language and the MySQL database server, explained for people who have neither a lot of database administration background nor programming experience. Matters of creating and querying databases, and of performing simple and advanced operations with PHP scripting, are covered adroitly.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
- Demonstrates Web application development by presenting ten real, ready-to-use examples
- Samples start with a simple guess book and end with a fully-functional e-commerce site with a shopping cart
- New features include both MySQL 4.1 and PHP 4.2
- Latest edition contains new applications including log analysis and project tracking
- CD-ROM includes all the code and examples applications from the book in addition to MySQL, PHP, Apache, PHP classes, libraries, utilities, and other tools
Reader Reviews
This review is from: MySQL/PHP Database Applications (Paperback)
I first learned PHP from Luke Welling and Laura Thomson's excellent "PHP and MySQL Web Development," and bought 'MySQL/PHP Database Applications' to provide an alternative perspective on solving problems. Unfortunately, this book doesn't offer enough content to warrant its high price. A full 58 pages is devoted to a PHP function reference which is a bit of a joke because PHP has one of the better online function references available. Code examples are printed with very large font again taking up more space than is necessary. Most important, though, some of these examples are a little bit suspect. They present a Catalog application written using Object Oriented Programming (OOP). This would have been valuable except that the classes they create are so specific that they couldn't be re-used -- basically negating the value of OOP to begin with. They do provide a couple of examples of good and bad relational database schema, but that isn't really worth the cost of this book.
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