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by Jay Greenspan (Author), Brad Bulger (Author) "THE BULK OF THIS CHAPTER is for those of you who have made it to the early 21st century without working with relational databases ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 648 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; illustrated edition edition (15 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764535374
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764535376
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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In MySQL/PHP Database Applications, Jay Greenspan and Brad Bulger explain how to work with PHP and MySQL, primarily for applications you might use on a Web site. How could the combination of this capable pair--which is feature-rich, highly reliable, capable of dealing with large traffic volumes, and absolutely free of charge in most cases--be any better? Take the time to study the advice and work through your own tests of the concepts presented, and it's pretty much certain that you'll walk away with the knowledge you need to do serious development work with the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server.

Rather than make up trivial programs just to illustrate aspects of the MySQL/PHP environment, this book features code snippets, half a page or so in length each, which illustrate the behaviour of key code structures. For example, in explaining conditional statements in PHP, the book gives you a no-frills IF statement with real values in place. It's not always obvious how the code structures will behave in practice, but the book does a consistently good job of commenting intelligently on the place of each aspect of the language in a well-designed application. The latter half attacks specific problems--a chat system, a guest book, and so on--and walks through the setup of MySQL and each important PHP function for each. --David Wall

Topics covered: The PHP server-side scripting language and the MySQL database server, explained for people who have neither a lot of database administration background nor programming experience. Matters of creating and querying databases, and of performing simple and advanced operations with PHP scripting, are covered adroitly.

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More businesses and ambitious individuals are trying to bring applications to the Web but they are bewildered with the array of components and concepts needed to create a data–driven site. The cost, stability and ease of development using the Open Source PHP 4 scripting language and a MySQL database makes this combination the best choice for small and mid–size Web–based applications. PHP4/MySQL Database Applications demonstrates web–application development by presenting seven real, ready–to–use examples starting with a simple guess book and ending with a fully–functional e–commerce site with a shopping cart. Inexperienced users will learn the essentials of working with PHP4 and MySQL so they can start building and customizing database applications for the web right away!

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, well-documented and well-written, 15 Feb 2002
Isn't it a shame that this book sells less than some others I could mention?
It offers as much information as a book its size can, save for surgical manuals. The MySQL chapter is really good: probably all the average web-developer will ever need to know on the subject. PHP is covered less, but the reader is explicitly advised to refer to the on-line documentation, and quite rightfully so.
The applications, which constitute the main bulk and inherent purpose of the book are well chosen and presented in a logical manner, each one including a few new elements. The comments draw the readers' attention to what's to be learned from each chapter, rather than the application itself, although they are quite robust and inclusive in their scope, and can be modified to fit most users' needs. Most of the code is not even presented, though, as it's on the CD.
The writing gets a bit personal sometimes ("my idea was crap, Brad came up with the goods"), but never intrusively so. The authors' insistence on procedural code will not gain them any fans among amateur programmers. There are a few typos, but nothing to write to the publisher about.
The numerous appendices (PHP and MySQL language reference, resources and installation, regular expressions and more) help make this book a true desktop reference, and the CD is loaded with goodies, including installs for both major OSs that actually work.
Maybe not the best choice for the absolute beginner, but a helpful, convenient and honest book for all (reasonable) purposes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More than the title suggests - a very useful book, 24 Feb 2001
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Although I haven't completed the book, the first half or so has been very useful. It tells you about the technology behind PHP and MySQL, alternatives before carefully going through in stages how to achive various tasks. The book shows common pitfalls and things to avoid and gives reasons. I've found it useful to expand my knowledge of PHP, and learn a lot more about MySQL and relational databases (of which I knew nothing before). As a beginner to MySQL the book has taken me though how they work, why they operate the way they do etc...

If you're going to be using MySQL with PHP, or are thinking about it, then this book will help immensly. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't already have some programming experience. You'll need that first, with some HTML. Overall, an outstanmding choice.

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative with great background, 9 Aug 2001
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Although I`ve come across a number of books that go into PHP and MYSQL in depth, for the tasks that I required I really needed something that would ease the task of writing systems using combinations of the two.

This book does this very very well. It has enough depth to give you a grounding in both PHP and MYSQL, however it`s example in using the two together are what makes this book.

Buy it if you`re developing using both, and require something that will take you through the basics of each and then onto bigger things.

A very good introduction.

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