Learning PHP and MySQL
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Welcome to the O’Reilly Learning PHP & MySQL blog
Here you will find code directly from the book, error listings, code fixes, and trivia about the computing world. Welcome. The authors of Learning PHP & MySQL Michele Davis and Jon Phillips will also be happy to answer any questions. So please use your real name when signing in! We look forward to a lively blog with lots of comments!
Source code for each chapter is posted under the catagories on the right side bar.
Brett Merkey Book Review
This review was taken from amazon.com
The Very Book for the Very Beginner, June 29, 2006
Reviewer: Brett Merkey (Palm Harbor, FL United States)
This book will take you from a basic understanding of creating static HTML to an elementary but quite nifty practical knowledge of serving up dynamic Web pages on your own.
Chapters 1-6 take you through basic orientation, the installation of Apache, PHP and MySQL, followed by an intro to PHP statements.
Chapters 7-9 introduce database concepts and step you through getting PHP to talk to MySQL.
Chapters 10-17 begin the process of creating forms and other components of Web sites and applications following all the way through to integrating some sample applications.
Each step and procedure has ample code printouts, logic diagrams and output screenshots. Review of knowledge was done well. One feature of this book you should take advantage of is the question section at the end of each chapter. I usually find these irritating and skip them because often the questions don’t reinforce learning and no answers are provided. The questions in this book *are* well constructed and the answers *are* provided.
Quibbles: Be prepared for a bit of keyboarding. O’Reilly provides a site for the book but the example code is not available for download. Your first bout of keying code may end in failure because the authors forget that in the first examples (the most important ones for an absolute beginner!) they need to recall being a beginner. They ask you to write out and save “a simple HTML document.” I did that. The example did not work on the server. I checked this, I checked that, I re-typed the code, I typed other examples. No luck. Then I stumbled onto changing the extension of my .html file to .php and all was well. See my point?
Googling now a verb!
’The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which bills itself as “The definitive record of the English language,” added the company name as a verb in the latest round of updates, placing Google in such august company as FedEx, TiVo, and Xerox.’
Taken from this article: Googling
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