PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)

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PHP and MySQL Web Development, Fourth Edition
The definitive guide to building database-drive Web applications with PHP and MySQL

PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications. PHP is a powerful scripting language designed to enable developers to create highly featured Web applications quickly, and MySQL is a fast, reliable database that integrates well with PHP and is suited for dynamic Internet-based ap

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January 14, 2014

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6 responses to “PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)”

Nathanael B. Minegar

January 14, 2014

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful

Outstanding, April 20, 2007

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Nathanael B. Minegar (Meriden, Connecticut) –

This review is from: PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This is one of the best overall software books I have ever read. It is the best PHP and MySQL book I have read so far. The structure of the book, the sequence of the material, and the technical explanations are excellent. It is not overly descriptive of details yet it defines the complex subject material very well. I maintain accounts on 1and1.com and all of the code examples from the book that I have tried so far worked with no problem after I changed file names to .php5. I was able to get the web forum application and the user authentication application up and running within 2 days of getting the book. I have experience in C, C++, and assembly programming but no real web development stuff. Also, I had bought (and returned!) three other books on PHP and MySQL before getting to this one. I am definitley keeping this book. 5 stars all the way!

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Pule Nong

January 14, 2014

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful

Perfect Book – Every PHP programmer must have this book!, November 20, 2009

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This review is from: PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (Paperback)

PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)

I am a self taught programmer and I always felt there was more to PHP than i was getting from other PHP books I had.So recently, I embarked on a month long search of a ‘good’ PHP book. I am glad to tell everyone else that I have finally found that book. This is right here, this book doesn’t make assumptions about your programming skills level – It teaches you what is important whether you already know it or not.

I am so pleased with what is in this book that I feel every PHP programmer should go out there and get one for themselves. I give this book 5/5 – Perfect!

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Travis Parks

January 14, 2014

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

There’s a Better Way, April 27, 2012

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Travis Parks (Warrington, PA United States) –

This review is from: PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (Paperback)

At first, I thought I was given the wrong impression about this book. I was told it showed how to make large-scale PHP applications, as well as taught the basics. And, in fact, it does. The problem is that many of the “common” practices aren’t “best” practices. I worked with PHP when I was in college and ran into a lot of issues involving how to package up reusable code, prevent users from directly requesting pure code files and writing testable code. It would appear that, after five years, none of these issues have been addressed. The book perfectly describes how to make a modern PHP application. However, it is just teaching another generation of developers the wrong way to build an application. Everything a developer needs to separate HTML generation, business logic and the data layer is available in PHP, but no one takes the time to teach how to do it. Newer platforms utilize routing middleware and claim to follow the MVC pattern; these platforms lead to much more scalable and maintainable applications. The book is confused about whether it wants to be yet another introduction to PHP and MySQL or an insider’s guide to building realistic architectures. It is neither a beginner’s guide, a reference or a best practices book; so what is it? It is a clutter of information. It does have many hands-on guides, which will help plenty of people, but I can’t say that the code will teach anyone how to do things the right way.

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Ron L. Williams

January 14, 2014

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful

Great program for beginners and experienced users, March 20, 2010

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Ron L. Williams –

This review is from: SiteSpinner Pro: Professional Web Development Software (CD-ROM)

I have used Web Easy 6 and upgraded to 7 when it came out. Although that program was ok, the instruction as well as help from the company is non-existant. If it wasnt for the forums set up for the users, I would have had a heck of time getting my site done.

When Web Easy 8 came out, I decided to look for something else. I was not impressed with the previous WE upgrades. I read other reviews from other sites and decided on SiteSpinner Pro. As with any new program of this type, there is always a learning curve. If you are not willing to look thru tutorials and scour the internet to learn, you may want to go with a site that offers templates where all you do is replace text and pics and your done. That being said, I have found this software to be extremely good and am I’m very happy with it.

STRONG POINTS
It’s truly ‘what you see is what you get’. I like the fact that where I place an object is where it shows up in my browser. It has a built in Opera browser which is nice since I use internet explorer. So I get to see my design in 2 different browsers to make sure things will look good. Working with text, pics, objects, shapes is a breeze. It’s easy to manipulate things and get the results you want. I just recently messed around with adding audio and video and it was easy also. Most everything is built in: want to add your own Javacode? click the code box and type it in. Want to add an mp3? click the multimedia button, choose song, browse to find it and your done. It’s just as easy to make a mouseover too!

There is a very strong forum too with lots of help from other users as well as company staff. A few of the users have their own websites dedicated to SiteSpinner for help. Very handy. You can use it to build site for mobile phones (although I have not used this feature yet but sounds interesting). I also really like the eyedropper in the pic & text boxes that allows you to get a color from anywhere (even outside of the program!). It also has a built in animation tool for objects/text to do animations on your page.

WEAK POINTS
It doesnt have an option to give pics or text a drop shadow. There are ways around this but would be nice if built into the program. There are many tutorials with the program that are very good; however, a few of the advanced features lack examples to follow to learn how to use. Other than that i have not found too many things I dont like at this point.

OVERALL
The thing to remember, there is no perfect software out there and all of them will have the high and low points and their own learning curves. I think that Virtual Mechanics is on the right track with this. They seem to also take note of what users would like to see in their forums and try to implement it into their next update. If you dont want to take the time to learn Dreamweaver or spend the money, this is a great alternative and worth your time. I can’t give anything a ‘5’ since that means there would be nothing to improve. There is always room for improvement or more features.

You can check out my 1st website I’ve done with this program here: […]

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Bill

January 14, 2014

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful

Your website will look like it does in the program Amazing Drag and Drop., January 26, 2010

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Bill (WA USA) –

This review is from: SiteSpinner Pro: Professional Web Development Software (CD-ROM)

I was using Dreamweaver CS4 but the learning curve was very high to put up a basic website. I love using Sitespinner Pro. It is very easy to use and as I learn more about web disign and SEO I have found the program to support my new learning well. In short if you want to learn web design buy Dreamweaver, If you want to put up a site pretty fast then get Sitespinner or sitespinner pro.

The only negative is for every site you have, you have to change the FTP password and file folder and information for each and every site so it is clunky in that regard. If you don’t you will over write you site, or upload site A over site B. IF you are not aware of this you can get pretty messed up.

In other words if you have more then one site, be careful to change the FTP information every time or you will over write you online site. What I have been doing is designing my site with sitespinner then saving it to file on my HD and then uploading it using dreamweaver because it will remember the FTP information for each site. If Sitespinner did this 5 starts all the way.
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Love it but better handling of FTP information for multiple sites must be better. Despite this, would be working much harder to build sites without Sitespinner Pro.

PS. Not like Dreamweaver, Sitespinner pro has been great in WYSIWYG across every browser I have tested it with. Dreamweaver is not Firefix and Explorer, and Crome and so on all looking exactly the same. Sitespinner has been great across browsers. It has always looked like the page on the program for every browser I have tried. Very well done 10 stars for that.

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Rick_Sp

January 14, 2014

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

Excellent SW — Perfect FrontPage Replacement, December 4, 2010

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This review is from: SiteSpinner Pro: Professional Web Development Software (CD-ROM)

Pros: This is well thought out, common-sense SW that enables one to make websites without learning code. I’ve tried several & this is absolutely the best. Much is intuitive with great tutorials & a user forum that is active with fast turrnaround on answers

Cons: You can’t import an old website… but you can copy & paste and recreate an old one easily. They try hard, but picture albums are tough to do… but Jalbum (Jalbum.net) imbeds into these pages with ease.

Summary: This is what FrontPage should have evolved into. This is absolutely THE BEST software for web development IF you don’t want to learn code.

That said, don’t expect to just pick it up and use it.
… you couldn’t do that initially with FrontPage either.
… there’s much to learn here.
…. but what you’re learning is not about code but about objects on your page and how they interact… it’s the right understanding of what is on the page. I feel like I should know this at this level.

The tutorials, the active forum, and at least three experts with their own websites offering tutorials and tips (referred to in the Basic tutorials under What’s Next) make all the info you need available.

I had several fairly complex (in terms of layout) FrontPage websites that I wanted to convert because I just got tired of the unreliability of the FrontPage Extensions on the Host site. At first I was frustrated that I couldn’t just copy them but had to recreate, but as I did it … much was just cut and paste objects from the old site…. and….I learned how the objects on the page interact….. and I had both of them done in just a couple of days.

I’ve tried Namo WebEditor, CoffeeCup, and Compozer… and didn’t like any of them…. I was ready to be a FrontPage die-hard.
SiteSpinner Pro changed my mind…. this is really good software.

You can either get a 15 day trial, or, read through the tutorials before you even try it and see if it makes sense to you:
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Once I read through this, I bought it and won’t be looking back.
SiteSpinner Pro is the best!

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