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* Shows the development of Web applications by presenting ten real, ready to use examples MedlinePlus * start with a simple guess book and end with a fully functional site e-commerce shopping cart MedlinePlus * New features include both MySQL 4.1 and PHP 4.2 MedlinePlus * Latest edition contains new applications including log analysis and monitoring of projects MedlinePlus * CD-ROM includes all code examples from the book and applications, as well as MySQL, PHP, Apache, PHP classes, libraries, utilities and others could toolsHow the combination of PHP and MySQL – which is rich in features, the combination of high reliability, capable of dealing with large volumes of traffic, and absolutely free in most cases – be better? In MySQL / PHP Database Applications , Jay Greenspan and Brad Bulger explain how to work with a partner capable, especially for applications that may use on a website. If you take the time to study the advice and work through their own tests of the concepts presented, it is quite sure that you go with the knowledge you need to do serious work with the development of PHP scripting language and server MySQL database. Instead of trivial programs just to illustrate aspects of the MySQL / PHP environment, this book features code snippets, each half page or less in length, illustrating the behavior of the structures of key code. For example, in explaining conditional statements in PHP, the book provides a low cost IF with real values instead. It is not always obvious how the code behaves structures in practice, but the book makes a good steady job to comment intelligently on the place of every aspect of the tongue in a well-designed application. The second half of the book attacks specific problems – a chat, a guestbook, and so on – and walk through the setup of MySQL and PHP each role for each. – David Wall Topics covered: The PHP server scripting language and database server MySQL, said people who have no great depth of management data base no programming experience. The issues of creation and query databases and perform simple and advanced PHP scripts are covered with skill.
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5 Comments for MySQL/PHP Database Applications, 2nd Edition
1. Steve Johnson | March 27th, 2007 at 6:12 AM
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While the examples are great and the topic coverage is excellent, there are 2 or more typos on almost every page. It looks like they were in such a hurry to get the thing out the door that quality control was not a consideration.The typos aren’t just in the text; they are quite common in the examples. For instance, when showing an example of a “contact” table, the text refers to contacts while the example shows contracts. There are missing “_”‘s in the data names and PHP and SQL syntax mistakes throughout.Given that, if you are willing to debug the text and the examples, you’ll find 99% of what you will need to know to be able to create a database driven website with Apache/PHP/MySQL.If you need the information now, buy it. If you can, I’d wait for the second edition; perhaps they can reduce the mistakes.sj
2. A. C. Johnson | March 27th, 2007 at 7:03 AM
Review by A. C. Johnson for MySQL/PHP Database Applications, 2nd Edition
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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.
3. Anonymous | March 27th, 2007 at 7:05 AM
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Overall, I found this book to serve as an excellent introduction to development using PHP and MySQL. The authors have a refreshing, no-nonsense approach to presenting information on MySQL and PHP quickly and in an easily understandable manner. However, on the flip side, this book is definately not for the beginning programmer. It is clear that the authors assume at least some familliarity with procedural programming languages, especially when presenting their examples. In the end, I heartily recommend this book to its target audience- programmers with some experience looking to learn how to use PHP with MySQL.
4. Anonymous | March 27th, 2007 at 7:36 AM
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This is a great book, two years ago. I have spent more time and energy than I wish over the last two months trying to get the syntax differences down, and hunt down bugs in the code I’m writing. A new edition is out expected out in August, in which PHP 4.2 and MySQL 4.1 are to be covered. While no published book will keep up with the advancing of technologies that are standards today, this new edition will be much much closer to what is in use right now.Wait if you can, otherwise, you’re in for a headache.
5. Avetis | March 27th, 2007 at 8:20 AM
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This is surely great book. For the very beginner it can be a little difficult, but if you have some understanding of what the programming is, this book will move you to the state where you have power to create almost any PHP+MySQL application. Covers many aspects of PHP4 and MySQL application development in both procedural and Object Oriented approaches. There are lots of useful references for further improvement. After reading this book you don’t need another one.
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