Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development
Written by Clement Faria on November 15, 2009 under Web Development.
- ISBN13: 9780764579660
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This update to a Wrox bestseller dives in and guides the reader through the entire process of creating dynamic, data-driven sites using the open source “AMP” model: Apache Web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors covers PHP scripting, database management, security, integration, and e-commerce functions and comes complete with a useful syntax reference. Showcases three fully functional Web site examp… More >>
Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development
Jonathan S. Schulze
November 15, 2009 at 9:29 am
I bought this book a couple of days ago after reading the cover (Bad Jon, never judge a book by its cover) and learning that it teaches you in both Windows and Linux. This is not the case. I am still in chapter one trying to configure Mysql under Linux. There is very basic linux setup configuration and then the book just assumes Windows is what you will use. I am retiring this book and picking up another.
Rating: 2 / 5
Mr. C. A. Richer Smith
November 15, 2009 at 10:46 am
This book right from the very beginning contradticts itself, it is full of different code for different things and typos.
I created several pages just as they said in the book and all worked, but had nasty looking error codes all over them.
If you are a beginner, which with a title like this books i presume so, don’t even think about getting this. Its difficult to follow at the best of times.
However all the code does work, just not well.
Rating: 2 / 5
Patrick Smith
November 15, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I’m about half way through this and have browsed the remaining half already. This book is a good beginning book for PHP and MySQL. They cover the basics quickly, yet effectively. The numerous examples give you the opportunity to apply the knowledge and practice writing code.
For those who have complained… you can download the code from the Wrox website. However, I have found that typing in the expamples helps me to digest and remeber the lessons. I even went so far and creating new files every time rather than just modifying.
I too had typos with the code… However, they have thus far, always been on my end. The code in the book hasn’t seemed flawed yet – although a few times I was convinced it was, only to finally see the missing quote mark or semicolon in MY code.
I do wish that they would have gone into a bit more description about the details of conecting from PHP to MySQL, although I can do it, I don’t entirely understand some of the code.
With this book you learn good, practial information about how to use PHP in conjunction with MySQL – The Apche piece is really only relevent for getting you PHP going. They cover what the book claims.
Rating: 4 / 5
Joseph J. Grossi
November 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I purchased this book after a few minuets of flipping through the first couple of chapters. They seemed to do a good enough job with the WHAT and WHY aspect of learning. That soon changed as I got through further chapters of the book. It’s quite evident that the developers of the code/book thought the reader would be able to grasp concepts of the code rather than just plainly explaining HOW and WHY it was written that way. Very frustrating book if you are new to PHP mysql. I then purchased the HEAD FIRST book on beginning PHP and mysql and it was a world of difference. WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY better book. Explains everything in detail (sometimes too much) but you certainly get everything drilled into your brain as any good teacher would do to make sure you absolutely understand your topic. Anyway, this book here was a waste of time and is, from my perspective, a suckers snare trap if you’re new and not sure what book to start with. It is a big book though, and I’m sure it will make for good fire starter!
Rating: 1 / 5
Steven Zuber
November 15, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I liked the premise so much that I ignored the warnings of others harmed before me.
Yes this is yet another left-hemisphere didactic that simply does not work in a learning paradigm.
Combine the dreary approach with with the more- than- plentiful coding errors, several per page, and you have it! The reason I took the time here, which I otherwise would not have considered.
Six chapters and out, capitalism lives, at the cost of three days of my life.
Rating: 2 / 5