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Product DescriptionPHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution shows the process of developing a website using a specific set of technologies: the Apache web server, the MySQL database and PHP scripting language. It gives you a completely hand experience and guide you through the construction of a complete application-driven site from design to distribution. Each chapter of the book is divided into three parts: Problem: The authors analyze each task and to identify areas that may be particularly difficult to implement. Design: Once the problems have been identified, a proposal has emerged to solve them. Solution: The code was developed and distributed to accomplish the task at hand. Throughout the book, good object-oriented PHP coding methods are used, if appropriate. The site is designed in a modular building, for which the individual chapters are generally focused on the design and construction of a specific piece of functionality of the site. . . More>>

PHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution

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8 Responses to “PHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution”

  1. February 9th, 2010 at 18:16 | #1

    This is the most rock-solid computer science programming text I read in the last ten years. Period. No one should miss this purchase. Rating: 5 / 5

  2. February 9th, 2010 at 18:56 | #2

    (This review is of the Wrox Press edition 2002) This book offers a thorough course in building a PHP-MySQL, working on a complete system in stages. The book contains lots of useful code and techniques that can be used on your own websites. As a reviewer before me is not for beginners in PHP / MySQL, but in combination with a good quick introduction to these topics (I used SAMS “Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours”), according me, this book should be all you need to get your cool interactive database driven out on the website. And when I contacted the authors to find the code for the download (which is available now from Apress Wrox no longer published), have been extremely useful. So go ahead – the software will cost nothing after all, why not splash out some money on this excellent book? Rating: 5 / 5

  3. February 9th, 2010 at 21:14 | #3

    This book is simply the best among the sea of books available today on PHP and MySQL. Anyone who wants to learn how to create a site that uses three popular technologies – PHP, Apache and MySQL should buy this book. What I found most interesting was the Learning Curve – too fast, too fast red that your client gape at the speed with which you put together your site. Rating: 5 / 5

  4. February 9th, 2010 at 21:51 | #4

    Chris Lea et al. , PHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution (Apress, 2002), were charged on PHP / MySQL book recently as I transition my family to Linux machines and prepare to implement a web server to hold my book and database the font-end painfully simple that I designed to work with it. The more I read the more I realize that PHP is not exactly what I need (although since it’s a matter of preference, I will not address in this review), but MySQL has always seemed the way to go for databases of Linux so I am still eating these things. I have not met one that is really complex databases on the web (database book is now thirty, without factoring tables logins, permissions, and the like), but this is the most complex of the lot so far. Unfortunately, it sticks with MyISAM, and indicates that the Convention usually when it comes to webhosts. This does not answer some questions I had for years about why website updates sometimes appear to contradict, in any case (MyISAM, at least at the time this book was written, did not support foreign keys, leaving the programs to ensure that the reports were made in code, the possible problems should be obvious). Yet this book under a lot of ground and I came across another PHP / MySQL web design books before, and that was easily worth the price of ingresso.Lea and his cohorts take the reader through the construction of a comprehensive website, with a number of features you would expect to see (the discussion forums, surveys, e-commerce based, etc.). As a side note, the website used as an example in the book is still there on the web as of this writing, although I got a set of database errors is not specified, while wandering through it (and has not been updated in a long, long time). In any case, the structure of the book, and most of the code used in it, is simple and straightforward. While that makes a lot of sense from an educational perspective, it tends to exacerbate some of the problems inherent to the use MyISAM as a database system for web development, and the authors seem to reject some of these problems (such as the lack of foreign keys that I mentioned, yes, it is certainly good programming practice for programmers to check for errors before the data is passed, but with another layer of built-in error checking is never stranger) than to discuss them rationally. More importantly, however, the book discusses the construction of a home-rolled content management system. With the recent increase (and explosion of popularity) out-of-the-box as the CMS Joomla! and Drupal, this might seem like an exaggeration, but let’s face it: how many people out there building web sites are really going to need up to 20% of the functionality is in a CMS written in order to try to please everyone all the time? Lea et al. offer a much lighter weight option that even the novice web-geek building can easily extend and personalizzare.Tutto in all, a lot of here is worth it. I actually bought this one to the store instead of outside the library, and while I’m not sure how much of the actual code I am going to use some of the concepts of project and it’s worth the price of entry for itself, everything else is the icing on the cake. *** ½ Rating: 4 / 5

  5. February 9th, 2010 at 22:55 | #5

    The book is great. It is with the layout of code on how to make pages like forums, creating ads, and taking surveys. The only problem I had was with PEAR DB. AFAIK Pera is relatively new and was too hard to figure out how to integrate that into my database. I was using MySQL on CRUX, and for me it was difficult to understand. They also use a lot of lines require_once. I know what you are used to, but the code has been so long that for a page that is used to require_once more different pages. I think for a beginner, this book is not the way to go. For people who do not have DEA PEAR thing is or how to set it, this book is not the way to go. If your experience a little ‘knowledge in PHP and Pear, Knock yourself out! For me, the book was too advanced, I did some Web sites in PHP, but not at this level. I hope I helped some people with their decision. Rating: 2 / 5

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