- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (9 Dec 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0782142796
- ISBN-13: 978-0782142792
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 19 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 600,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Build Dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL—and Extend Those Sites with Web Services
PHP and MySQL are great tools for building database–driven websites. There′s nothing new about that. What is new is the environment in which your site operates—a world rich (and growing richer) in web services that can add value and functionality in many different ways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks you through every step of a major web project—a content–management system—teaching you both the basic techniques and little–known tricks you need to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to develop dynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here′s some of what you′ll find covered inside:
- Adding, deleting, and displaying data with a custom content–management system
- Building a template system with PHP
- Interacting with web services using PHP and MySQL
- Creating and managing a user system and a shopping cart
- Processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third–party payment solutions
- Tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL
- Enhancing your site with third–party scripts
Tons of examples, complete with explanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress, whether you′re a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book is platform–agnostic, so it doesn′t matter if you′re deploying your site on Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.
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Build Dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL—and Extend Those Sites withWeb Services
PHP and MySQL are great tools for buildingdatabase–driven websites. There′s nothing new about that. What is new isthe environment in which your site operates—a world rich (and growingricher) in web services that can add value and functionality in many differentways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks youthrough every step of a major web project—a content–managementsystem—teaching you both the basic techniques and little–known tricks youneed to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to developdynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here’s someof what you’ll find covered inside:
Tons of examples, complete withexplanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress,whether you’re a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book isplatform–agnostic, so it doesn’t matter if you’re deploying your siteon Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.
PHP and MySQL are great tools for buildingdatabase–driven websites. There′s nothing new about that. What is new isthe environment in which your site operates—a world rich (and growingricher) in web services that can add value and functionality in many differentways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks youthrough every step of a major web project—a content–managementsystem—teaching you both the basic techniques and little–known tricks youneed to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to developdynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here’s someof what you’ll find covered inside:
- Adding,deleting, and displaying data with a custom content–managementsystem
- Building a template system with PHP
- Interacting with web servicesusing PHP and MySQL
- Creating and managing a user system and a shoppingcart
- Processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third–partypayment solutions
- Tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL
- Enhancingyour site with third–party scripts
Tons of examples, complete withexplanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress,whether you’re a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book isplatform–agnostic, so it doesn’t matter if you’re deploying your siteon Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book after looking for online tutorials. I came across a well established site (www.phpfreaks.com) they had this book for sell so I thought I would check it out, it looked good but I had just bought 'Programming PHP' by 'Rasmus Lerdorf & Kevin Tatroe'.
I decide to follow some of the online tutorials on there site instead, and the quality was excellent and when I found out it was the guy from the site who wrote this book I just had to have it.
I found it on Amazon (like most things) and paid my £23 and to be honest this book is better then a 5 star rating. It is the book I have always wanted, it explains things in a clear easy to understand way but don't let that through the professional off, it covers from the very basics to advanced scripts in one book.
It provides the code but breaks it down into easy to digest explanations to what it does and why it does that. To be honest I wish I had got this before I got 'Programming PHP' as I think this is much better.
Some things you may find interesting, this DOES NOT come with a CD. This did not bother me as it gives you good practice to typing the code so anyone looking just to get a CD full of code that they can copy and paste and say they have made this site, NO, sorry you can't.
I would also suggest you don't just buy this one book, although it is VERY good I would encourage you to by a second book on PHP just to compare how one does something and the other does it so you don't just code one way. Try to get a fell for all the different methods.
As a web designer I found this easy to pick up but I would say if you don't know HTML then don't buy this, try a book on that as this is like HTML level 2. This book is tutorial based and does cover MySQL so if you want a very good reference book that will help you code, understand and implement PHP then BUY THIS BOOK I can not praise it enough.
_Chris
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This would be a 5 star text if it covers php 5. It appears no new editions are planned so you have to think of how you can apply it's lessons To PHP 5 as it's based on a PHP 4.3.X installation.
That being said, I like the book's approach in that once it gets past PHP basics in the first, it presents full PHP applications such as an e-commerce web app, a membership app with registration, log-in and forgotten password scripts as welll as news site. The application starts simple and then progressively adds more interactive and dynamic features so that you can easily isolate a particular component that you want to focus on, such as the memmbership app.
Recommended if you do not mind information based on PHP 4. However few books are as practical as this one and if you have used any Sybex book, you know what I am talking about.
That being said, I like the book's approach in that once it gets past PHP basics in the first, it presents full PHP applications such as an e-commerce web app, a membership app with registration, log-in and forgotten password scripts as welll as news site. The application starts simple and then progressively adds more interactive and dynamic features so that you can easily isolate a particular component that you want to focus on, such as the memmbership app.
Recommended if you do not mind information based on PHP 4. However few books are as practical as this one and if you have used any Sybex book, you know what I am talking about.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great Book, Poor Title
25 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
Let me start by saying that I did find this book quite helpful. It contains a wealth of ideas about topics that a Web site developer would want to know about. The author doesn't just talk about designing a Web site with static data. These Web sites really are interactive, which is the direction that many Web sites are headed today. For example, if you want to create a blog, Chapter 6 will get you started. Are you a merchant that wants to get started with online payments? Chapters 8 and 9 will get you started; although, they probably aren't the end of the journey because the book doesn't address security and privacy concerns. Even so, you can get a lot of information out of this book.
The book does have a few problems, one of which is the title. I didn't really see much in the way of real Web services coverage. Yes, there is a simple example of working with Amazon Web Services in Chapter 7, but that's not really a lot of coverage. The supposed coverage of Google Web Services in Chapter 7 doesn't deal with Google Web Services at all--it discusses how to create request URLs for the standard interface. Does this make the techniques less useful? No, I found them quite helpful, but this truly isn't a Web services book.
I found it a little jolting that the author has just barely introduced functions on page 17 and on page 18 you're already working with databases. I wouldn't consider this a book for the novice--it's not a gentle introduction to PHP at all.
The author also has a tendency to either omit necessary configuration details or mention them in passing so that a reader could easily miss them. For example, the reader needs a developer token to work with the Amazon example, yet the author devotes a single sentence to this topic and it's buried in a paragraph with other details. Consequently, even though the code probably all works, some readers have probably gotten frustrated trying to figure out the missing details.
Given what I know about the book now, it's still a very good purchase and will stay on my bookshelf. The author introduces too many good ideas and interesting concepts to ignore this book. Hopefully, a second edition will fix some of the annoyances that kept the first edition from being as good as it could be.
20 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Don't look here for "Web Services"!
29 Jan 2005
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The title of this book is unfortunately misleading. If you believe, as I do, that "Web Services" has something to do with SOAP (or more specifically, nuSOAP or other PHP-specific library) then prepare to be disappointed if you buy this book!
The closest thing you will find is a short discussion of the Amazon API and Google translation services, a slim 24 page chapter out of the entire 400+ page book. These are both already documented online.
The rest is an intermediate-level discussion of common PHP applications, which are addressed as well (if not better) in a number of other books...
Not recommended.
Postscript: Based on the ratings for this review, I felt it necessary to add the following clarifying comments:
This book is a decent introduction to general PHP web programming. However (and most PHP newbies would not know this), "Web Services" is a VERY specific programming term used to describe some relatively advanced concepts, e.g. Remote Procedure Calls between hardware-agnostic servers.
So what we have here is a book that explicitly claims to provide some specific, advanced programming knowledge. THE BOOK DOES NOT DELIVER ON THE PROMISE IMPLIED BY ITS TITLE! No matter how good an introductory book this is, readers should be warned that they will not come away with any increased knowledge of "Web Services". Caveat Emptor.
The closest thing you will find is a short discussion of the Amazon API and Google translation services, a slim 24 page chapter out of the entire 400+ page book. These are both already documented online.
The rest is an intermediate-level discussion of common PHP applications, which are addressed as well (if not better) in a number of other books...
Not recommended.
Postscript: Based on the ratings for this review, I felt it necessary to add the following clarifying comments:
This book is a decent introduction to general PHP web programming. However (and most PHP newbies would not know this), "Web Services" is a VERY specific programming term used to describe some relatively advanced concepts, e.g. Remote Procedure Calls between hardware-agnostic servers.
So what we have here is a book that explicitly claims to provide some specific, advanced programming knowledge. THE BOOK DOES NOT DELIVER ON THE PROMISE IMPLIED BY ITS TITLE! No matter how good an introductory book this is, readers should be warned that they will not come away with any increased knowledge of "Web Services". Caveat Emptor.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not what I was looking for
23 July 2006
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I'm using this book for a class. Most of the students have had bad experiences with PHP before this -- I'm one of them. The back of this book states it is rated for an Intermediate/Advanced user level. The rating is totally accurate. Unless you have a basic but decent PHP background you will be lost. The author uses special characters, terms, etc. that are not previously defined, and assumes a basic understanding of programming. If you do not have a basic understanding of programming and an elementary knowledge of PHP, find another book. This one does not give enough background in PHP to get a novice up to speed.
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