Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL
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PHP and MySQL have become a serious and commercially viable system with which to develop web applications. With the relase of PHP 5, J2EE developers, in particular, are starting to take a second look at PHP. And while there are many books on the makret that describe PHP language syntax, there are very few that fully describe web application development with PHP and related technologies. This book describes the complete web application development lifecycle, fr… More >>
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Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t hope so much for MySQL but it’s an excelent beginning, so clear and always in focus..
The last exercises are really very interesting, but I recommend that follow them very carefully becouse they need some adjusts to work! but that’s the idea or not?
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is full of typo error, bug coding, wrong concepts by the following facts:
1. He propose a fingerprint concept, but actually fingerprint needs to be sent back to the user via other ways. The author makes the reader to assume that he can only md5 the user agent with a seed variable and store that in $_Session varialbe to make every work. Wrong!! Totally wrong, nobody will know your fingerprint if you don’t send them back to the visitor, and it is meaningless.
2. The book really piss me off. It looks that the book was written by somebody who don’t know PHP …almost every two pages has a typo error, or even more… a script full of bugs….I read it totally once and take notes in every page, and after my reading, I start to try every code which I think is important, but I am really dispointed that they all are junk codes…and the author gave a lot of wrong concepts…for example, the chapter 5, using prev, next, current to handle array. He said if the next element in the array is (bool)False, the next function will end up. I tried it, and the author is wrong again.
It’s really time-wasting in reading this kind of book. Not only waste your money, but also waste your time.
Rating: 1 / 5
I used another book to get started and soon tired of the tedious copying and testing code. This book does not spend inordinate amount of time explaining each keystroke (exaggeration) and you can skim the parts you know and spend more time on the subject matter that you need to learn.
I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
The focus of the book is building web sites as the title implies. I want to use these tools to build a stand-alone application that creates and uses a database. It appears that every thing I need is in the book. It tells you how to connect to the database from PHP, how to create and manage tables, how to manipulate the data in the tables. It even gives a brief introduction to the normalization of your tables.
I am very happy with the book for my goals.
Rating: 5 / 5