Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional

I am the fan of book series: "From Novice to Professional", because the books always give practical comprehensive examples. In that way, you will learn a sophistical problem easier without having to story difficult rules and theories, but generate them by yourselves.

Book Description

• Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites.
• Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
• Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as creating an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted e-mail, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a web interface.
• Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapters introducing triggers, stored procedures, and views.

From the Back Cover

Interested in becoming a master of the PHP language and MySQL database but don't know where to begin? This best-selling book ranks among the most thorough and practical guides in print, covering all of the key concepts and features, and showing you how to effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to build powerful web sites.

The book begins with a vast overview of PHP's capabilities, starting with a survey of the installation and configuration process on both the Windows and Linux platforms. Next, several chapters are devoted to basic PHP concepts, including variables, datatypes, arrays, functions, string manipulation, and processing user input. Other key PHP topics are also covered, including PEAR, session handling, LDAP integration, the Smarty templating engine, Web services, and PDO.

Next up is a presentation of MySQL's key features. You're first guided through MySQL's installation and configuration process, and are presented with an introduction to its storage engines, datatypes, administration utilities, security features, and data import/export facilities. New MySQL 5--specific chapters have been added in this edition, covering triggers, stored procedures, and views. Along the way, you'll gain insight into PHP's assortment of MySQL functions (using both the mysql and mysqli extensions), and learn how to create and execute queries, perform searches, and carry out key database tasks from within your Web application.

What You Will Learn from This Book

• Install and configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL on both Windows and Linux.
• Accept and process information submitted via HTML forms.
• Authenticate users and track user preferences and data using PHP's session-handling capabilities.
• Process web-based file uploads using the HTTP_Upload PEAR package.
• Create your own RSS aggregator using Magpie, and process XML files in amazingly efficient fashion using SimpleXML.
• Use both command-line and graphical MySQL clients to effectively manage your data.
• Secure the MySQL server, creating roles and restricting access even at very granular levels.
• Effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to create dynamic, data-driven web applications.

Download Description

Beginning PHP 5 and MYSQL: From Novice to Professional offers a comprehensive introduction to two of the most popular Web application building technologies on the planet: the scripting language PHP and the MySQL database server. This book will not only expose you to the core aspects of both technologies, but will provide valuable insight into how they are used in unison to create dynamic data-driven Web applications.

Beginning PHP 5 and MYSQL explains the new features of the latest releases of the world’s most popular Open Source Web development technologies: MySQL 4 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. This book explores the benefits, extensive new features, and advantages of the object-oriented PHP 5, and how it can be used in conjunction with MySQL 4 to create powerful dynamic Web sites.

This is the perfect book for the Web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice that wants to learn how to create applications with PHP 5 and MySQL 4, and is a great entrance point for Apress’s extensive spectrum of PHP books planned for 2004.

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From the Publisher
A print format magazine dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP. Each issue contains articles that cover topics from the basics to such advanced topics as PHP internals and Internet protocols, all in an easy-to-read, conversational and yet professionally accurate tone.


Some Reviews from Customers

• D. Shafik (FL, USA) - "A Must Have for PHP Developers"

Simply the best magazine of its kind. Contains a varied bunch of in-depth, well written articles each and every month. The articles are written by well known and respected members of the PHP community and provide everything you need to know about the subject matter covered - which can vary from Databases to PHP-GTK. I strongly urge everyone to grab a copy today!

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I used to buy phparchitect in their PDF format, but have switched to the print edition since they started publishing it. This magazine has *a lot* more information than any PHP website I've seen. The articles are very long and incredibly in-depth--and they publish articles on topics that in many cases I haven't seen covered anywhere else. Yes, the magazine is a bit expensive, but it also has very little in the way of advertisements--and it focus exclusively on PHP, which can't be said of any other magazine out there. I doubt that the guy above even reads this mag... I say go for it, because if you're serious about PHP, it's definitely worth it!

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Book review: Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

Beginning PHP 5 and MYSQL: From Novice to Professional offers a comprehensive introduction to two of the most popular Web application building technologies on the planet: the scripting language PHP and the MySQL database server. This book will not only expose you to the core aspects of both technologies, but will provide valuable insight into how they are used in unison to create dynamic data-driven Web applications.

The Book explains the new features of the latest releases of the world’s most popular Open Source Web development technologies: MySQL 4 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. This book explores the benefits, extensive new features, and advantages of the object-oriented PHP 5, and how it can be used in conjunction with MySQL 4 to create powerful dynamic Web sites.

This is the perfect book for the Web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice that wants to learn how to create applications with PHP 5 and MySQL 4, and is a great entrance point for Apress’s extensive spectrum of PHP books planned for 2004.

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Book review: Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar,

Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar

Overview:
The recently release version PHP 5 has a lot of powerful feature. But still few people use (according to my research at digitalpoint forum). One reasion is the people are still not confidence with PHP 5. "Learning PHP 5" is a book written to anwser the questions: "Why PHP 5?", "What's new in PHP 5"

More Description:
PHP has gained a following among non-technical web designers who need to add interactive aspects to their sites. Offering a gentle learning curve, PHP is an accessible yet powerful language for creating dynamic web pages. As its popularity has grown, PHP's basic feature set has become increasingly more sophisticated. Now PHP 5 boasts advanced features--such as new object-oriented capabilities and support for XML and Web Services--that will please even the most experienced web professionals while still remaining user-friendly enough for those with a lower tolerance for technical jargon.

If you've wanted to try your hand at PHP but haven't known where to start, then Learning PHP 5 is the book you need. If you've wanted to try your hand at PHP but haven't known where to start, then Learning PHP 5 is the book you need. With attention to both PHP 4 and the new PHP version 5, it provides everything from a explanation of how PHP works with your web server and web browser to the ins and outs of working with databases and HTML forms. Written by the co-author of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book is for intelligent (but not necessarily highly-technical) readers. Learning PHP 5 guides you through every aspect of the language you'll need to master for professional web programming results. This book provides a hands-on learning experience complete with exercises to make sure the lessons stick.
Learning PHP 5 covers the following topics, and more:

• How PHP works with your web browser and web server
• PHP language basics, including data, variables, logic and looping
• Working with arrays and functions
• Making web forms
• Working with databases like MySQL
• Remembering users with sessions
• Parsing and generating XML
• Debugging

Written by David Sklar, coauthor of the PHP Cookbook and an instructor in PHP, this book offers the ideal classroom learning experience whether you're in a classroom or on your own. From learning how to install PHP to designing database-backed web applications, Learning PHP 5 will guide you through every aspect of the language you'll need to master to achieve professional web programming results

Editor's Opinion:
The book is best for you if you are relatively new to PHP but want a fast approach to the state-of-art Web development technology. If you are already mastered with PHP, you'd still gain some value experience on reading the book, however, you should find other advanced books on PHP5.

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