- ISBN13: 9780596157135
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Product Description
If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You’ll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You’ll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.
Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You’ll practice what you’ve learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.
This book will help you:
- Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming
- Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
- Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
- Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
- Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library
- Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment
- Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications
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Let me start out by saying that I originally gave this 4 stars because it doesn’t explain concepts for new developers to php. The books assumes that you have computer programming knowledge even though it states you don’t have to in the description, which luckily I have programming experience so I could understand the concepts but just gave a warning to new developers with no programming experience in my first review. I had to then take it down to 1 star because the book has no logical order in which it teaches you the concepts, gives examples and gives answers or follow-ups. Example: the book would show you an example of the concept(an actual hard code example), then explain the concepts, then tell you what happens when the code runs. Because of this style/order(or lack of it) it makes it hard to learn. There is useful information in this book but you can find far better books out there that have some form of logic and order to the construction of the material. I really have no idea how this book made it past his editor and publication company because O’Reily usually has great books. Do yourself a favor and save a lot of headaches and try a different book. I usually don’t write negative reviews(you can look in my review history) but this book is COMPLETELY nonsensical and has no logical order.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve only gotten through the first two and a half chapters, but so far it’s a great introduction to the web technologies necessary to make a Web 2.0 site. The author has a great writing style for this kind of book–he is engaging and knowledgeable, while not speaking down at you too much.
No programming knowledge is required, and the book does discuss basic concepts like variables, arrays, etc. But it does look like that is all covered in the first few chapters and that by the end you can create working, powerful websites.
And when you’re done with this book, the author himself gives you a list of what books to go onto when you want to learn more about any of the technologies covered.
Overall, a great book so far and a fine addition to the stellar O’Reilly series!
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve read HeadFirst Php and Mysql and it was too simple and assume you know nothing at all about programming.
This book on the other hand assume you have some knowledge of programming and goes straight through the basic of PHP then MySQL and then Javascript and whatever else…
First off, I’m rusty so I’m using this book to sharpen my PHP and I brushed through it fairly easy (through the PHP chapters). There ARE lots of code errors! I have no clue why the other reviewers are saying there are no errors! There’s a errata page for this book (O’Reily’s webpage). I even found error in the session/http auth example that isn’t even posted on the errata page yet!
The book was great to brush over my PHP skill (only did like three small project on php). MySQL was neat, I learn new stuff from it. The author does go into care about sql injections and script injection and html entities which is nice and everybody should know these things. But that’s it!
Everything else was bad. He doesn’t teach you Object Oriented programming for php. The http/auth combination is either wrong or stupid to even have those in combination. After searching the web for solutions, because logout code doesn’t really work with the http authen page, it only kill session, from what I gathered that it was stupid to use those two combination.
Does not go into details on installing smarty but a quick google helped or just stick with your linux. So it’s just a small niggle nothing major.
Oh, the biggest problem was when I get to the Javascript part. His Javascript coding style is ugly. Instead of declaring variables in the beginning such as var variable1, he does it on the go, which to me is ugly as hell. It also makes it harder to read. Oh and he leaves the semicolon that end statement because it’s optional.
Yes, I know this is an introduction to these languages and database but I think the author tries his hardest to balance it out while covering all these topics but it didn’t work out.
I’ve started reading php object-oriented solutions by David Powers and let me tell you, the codes in that book works. You know why it works? Because the author have written TONS of test cases and have codes that test each classes and their methods. So this is where I’m benching my, “The Code works!” rating.
For those reviews that stated that the code works, you guys are either lying or just not thinking when you read/programming.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
5 Stars… what can I say to quantify that rating? Great examples, builds logically, was a great resource for an “advanced beginner”. Well edited and most of all the nebulous… I just understood what he was saying. Great communication skills. It is a learning resource not a cookbook, but I felt I came away much better prepared to use these topics than before, I find myself understanding more of the code(at least using javascript and PHP) than before. Great book thanks!
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
I am a programmer turned computer teacher. I have done a little PHP/MySQL in the past using Dreamweaver but I wanted to code by hand. I have bought many computer books, and this is one of the best I have read. It’s the right size, goes into each topic just enough to give you something that works as well as something to build on.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5