Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 504 pages
- Published by: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
- Edition: 2nd Edition August 26, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 193184187X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1931841870
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
Premier Press Fast & Easy™ approach is now available for Web developers! You don't have to spend your time wading through manuals to learn PHP. Spend it doing what you do best—creating Web pages! Use this one-of-a-kind learning tool to install and configure PHP and create your own contact management system. Premier Press Fast & Easy™ web development series combines easy-to-understand instructions with visual examples. The result is a unique, hands-on approach to PHP that you will not find anywhere else. Less time, less effort, more results!
Book Info
(Prima Tech) Comprehensive guide shows how to install Apache using Windows of Linux, mix PHP and HTML, use PHP variables, display dynamic content, and use cookies. Provides easy to follow examples. Softcover. CD-ROM included.
Reader ReviewsIf you're the type of learner who benefits from *doing* and *playing around with possibilities*, I think you'll find Meloni's approach workable. I hadn't done any programming for decades (and that obviously was neither MySQL nor web-based), and was used to FoxBase and Filemaker style databases, but this book was the easiest of all those PHP/MySQL books I looked into -- so that I was able to get set up and connect with my ISP's MySQL db and begin playing around with web pages through PHP. Sometimes the examples are worked through with painfully repetitive details, but this enabled me to get more comfortable with the PHP approach to sending commands and getting information from a MySQL database. The examples (code helpfully available for online download) left with models whose operation I understood and could modify into boilerplate for experimenting with my own projects. And for me it really worked to be able to get into the throws of development BEFORE I had to learn vast amounts of PHP that was not yet relevant to me. The book begins with a section of installation and configuration of PHP, MySQL, and Apache (which was unneeded since I used my ISP's setup. Then three brief chapters nicely outline just the basics of PHP you'll need for using its language. In a third section she shows the use of PHP for querying for types of browsers and operating systems, sending email, and working with files through a browser. Finally, the fourth section walks you through basic MySQL database processes such as creating the db and its tables, listing information about them, and displaying selections of their data -- all done through PHP/HTML in browser pages (e.g., for a 'My Music Collection' db) in ways that you'll want to use when you develop your own sites. - Very helpful! The fifth section has chapters to help you regulate visitors to your site -- setting up ids & passwords, storing them in the database and in cookies.The sixth section puts all this together in a full "Contact Management System" - still walking you slowly through the process. There is not a lot of detailed explanation about exactly why one must use the exact PHP or MySQL commands (from among alternate strategies), but I'm content now to start learning that from intermediate level books. What Meloni offered me that other "introductions" did not was a quick way to get in and actually toy around with my own actual MySQL dbs through PHP/HTML pages that I created and got online. As a beginning experience - it sure worked for me!
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