Product Description

This book shows how to build open source web applications with the latest version of MySQL and PHP

Learn how to build a sample application using PHP and MySQL in the Spotlight section.Download three full-length case studies (including code trees) to find out how others have used the open source database and scripting language to build web applications.

Visit the companion web site to get source code samples and live web applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88731 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
A great book for someone who knows little about MySQL and PHP and wants to quickly get on with producing some database driven dynamic web pages. (Oraclehome.co.uk )

From the Back Cover

Create MySQL database-driven Web sites and applications with PHP quickly and easily. This step-by-step guide explains how to take full advantage of PHP’s built-in support for MySQL and link the results of database queries to Web pages. You’ll get full details on PHP programming and MySQL database development, and then you’ll learn to use these two cutting-edge technologies together. Easy-to-follow sample applications include a PHP online shopping cart, a MySQL order tracking system, and a PHP/MySQL news publishing system.

• Set up a PHP/MySQL development environment on Windows or UNIX
• Write PHP scripts and use variables, statements, and operators
• Create reusable code with arrays and custom functions
• Use files, sessions, cookies, and external programs
• Create a MySQL database and use SQL commands
• Edit database records and perform queries
• Control access and privileges with the MySQL security system
• Query a MySQL database with PHP
• Validate user input to maintain database integrity
• Format query output for optimal results

About the author: Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire, a company specializing in Web development and content creation for a variety of clients. He is the author of MySQL: The Complete Reference.

About the Author
Vikram Vaswani (Bombay, India) is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com) a company specialising in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is also the author of MySQL: The Complete Reference (OMG 2003) and XML and PHP (New Riders, 2002).

Customer Reviews

Excellent
The Amazon synopsis of this book is way off, seems to be describing a different book. Anyway - How to do Everything with PHP & MySQL is a perfect starting point for learning these technologies. Every paragraph introduces a new concept, but you never get the feeling of being left behind (though the book does assume some basic HTML knowledge). Each chapter concludes with a list of online resources where you can learn more detail about the topics covered. This is one of the most easy to read and instructive programming books I've ever read.

Very useful!
I'm a beginner at PHP, and have found this book very useful. while it's not comprehensive, the author does an excellent job of explaining how things work and why.

I have been using this book in conjunction with the php.net website, and while some prior knowledge of html is assumed, this book is ideal for people that have not used PHP before :-)

A great place to start PHP and Mysql
I spent some time looking at books before I selected this one - I am glad I took the time. It is well worth while. It's a very well put together book. From installing php and mysql it examines first PHP and the Mysql and then the two working together. It doesn't really have tutorials but there are loads of really useful code examples. At the end it demonstrates the build of a news publishing system. Every chapter has a load of great websites for more information.

This is a very good intro book. It is not really a very useful once your up and running needing a good reference.

Downside - I found the set-up lacked something. I didn't bother with Apache as I already have IIS and it would have been good to have an ISS set-up, but its not hard to find on the web. Also its a bit Unix based - sorry but I use .... what's it called again?? - oh yes 'windows' or something! I think most people buying this book will be using windows and if you use windows this is still the book for you.

However the book does not deserve less than a 5.