PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

It hasn’t taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions o

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  1. 10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    This Book Worked for me!, June 23, 2008
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    T. R. Bozer (Central New York State) –
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    This review is from: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)
    Although I have some background with programming (Basic, Pascal, COBAL) and desktop db business applications, I had been somewhat intimidated by the idea of server-side programming.

    I can only tell you that I did in fact take this book one chapter at a time, sometimes re-reading some sections several times, and marking-up certain parts with a hi-liter and a red pen. I followed the tutorials, downloaded the scripts from the book’s associated website, and even got help directly from the author at his website’s forum.

    Don’t misunderstand me, that I marked-up the book, did homework, and asked questions was a reflection of how the book did engage me – AND TAUGHT ME. The book is well written, methodical, detailed, and its intended audience seemed to be someone with my background (pretty fluent in HTML, handy with CSS, has a basic understanding of databases and programming concepts, and who enjoys the learning process under a good professor).

    This book will get you started and on your way – correctly. It was the perfect launch site for me (once you get through this book you will be in a good position to evaluate what you need to learn next). As for me, this book (alone) taught me to write programs/scripts to login users, develop MySQL databases, write database reports, do user input forms and process them at the back-end updating the database tables, sessions, cookies, etc. etc.

    Select this book. Your php output will be, primarily, html markup. So if you don’t know HTML – spend some time with that first — along with CSS (I recommend CSS The Missing Manual by David S. McFarland).

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  2. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Looking for self-education material, June 27, 2009
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    J. Gesacion (West Palm Beach, FL USA) –
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    This review is from: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)
    This is the best book on PHP scripting that I have found to date. It provided me with a lot of good information and enabled me to learn php to the extent to be able to effectively develop server side scripts. I am an experienced programmer, but feel this book is good for those who have limited programming or scripting knowledge. I was a bit disappointed in the depth of coverage, ie not enough for me. As an example, it covered how to set up a script to email information, but it did not cover how to attach a file to the email. I would recommend this book, but like most subjects, multiple sources of information are needed.

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  3. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    I love it., February 22, 2008
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    John Anthony (SSF, CA USA) –

    This review is from: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)
    I used to have the old version of this book as well as PHP4 & MySQL 4.1. I was in limbo, at the time I upgrade my version of MySQL 4.1 to MySQL 5.0. The current and stable version of MySQL has a lot of changes and added new features. It is not easy to just move to this new version without good knowledge of the old version and a good reference
    to the new/current one. Currently, I am in chapter 8, enjoying it and learning it the right way. Thanks Larry great job!
    John Anthony
    Web Designer & Applications Programmer

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