PHP and MySQL Everyday Apps For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 456 pages
• Published by: For Dummies July 8, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764575872
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764575877
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Description
PHP and MySQL Everyday Apps For Dummies is a one-stop reference providing all you need to build dynamic, real-world, ready-to-use apps with the popular PHP (a scripting language) and MySQL (a database system) software. The book is a hands-on, go-to-guide that

• Walks you through installing the applications files from the CD-ROM and setting up your programming environment
  
  
• Contains all the code needed to create seven applications:
  • User authentication with HTTP
  • User login
  • On-line catalog
  • Shopping cart
  • Content management system
  • Web forum
  • Building and managing a mailing list (on the CD-ROM)

• Automates the programming process and walks you through building the application from start to finish
  
  
• Explains how to write secure code
  
  
• Features complete code—not just snippets, but neatly assembled packages with “instant” real-world functionality
  
  
• Shows how to build the applications in two forms -- procedural and object-oriented programming -- providing programmers who want to switch to the object-oriented method of coding (which is new in PHP 5!) with the essential know-how
  
  
• Includes a companion CD-ROM that contains every line of code in the applications from the book plus a bonus chapter that shows how to build a mailing list

Information on each application includes a discussion of issues, structure of the database, code listings, and an explanation of the code. You can use these applications as is, modify them for use on your Web site, or build your own application using techniques described. If you want real-world Web apps you can use right away, this is the book for you.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Back Cover Copy
Includes unique object-oriented coverage!

Complete instructions for building real-world Web applications, with all code on CD

Create six practical applications - two user login-in apps, online catalog, shopping cart, content management system, and Web forum - both in procedural and object-oriented programming. Incorporate the apps into your Web site right away by following the easy directions. The apps are not just snippets, but neatly assembled packages with real-world functionality!

Discover how to

• Design and build two types of user login apps
• Restrict Web site access
• Build an online shopping cart and catalog
• Allow users to publish documents online
• Manage mailing lists
• Let users post messages on an online bulletin board

Reader Reviews
The applications on the CD are not "working and ready for you to install." Not at all. In fact, if you do exactly what the book says, your apps WILL NOT work. Why? Because the code is wrong. Not only are there errors in the database instructions, but the PHP and inc files have numerous errors. Even after downloading the "corrected files" and following the new instructions for the database found on the author's website, some functionality is simply broken. The CMS kinda-sorta works, but not really because there is no file upload form as you see displayed in the book. Just not there. Obviously the result of some error in the file include, but you'd have to be a php expert to figure it out. Without being able to add or delete records from a database, well, a CMS is pretty useless, isn't it? Yes it is. The most important applications on the CD (shopping cart and content management system) are rife with errors. This cripples them to such a degree that they are worthless as is. And corrected. And especially if you are a "dummy."