Product Description
“Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono’s commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you ‘hide behind the couch.’”
-From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series
Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL…
Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!
Suddenly, it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you’ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications—all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.
Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you’ll need to build virtually any application. You’ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.
Working from complete examples on the CD-ROM, you’ll create
- Generic dynamic Web sites
- Blogs
- Discussion forums
- Shopping carts
- Auction sites
- Calendars
- FAQ systems
- Reusable components
- Content management systems
- News sites
JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntu’s sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an O’Reilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co-founder of LUGRadio—a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.
CD-ROM Includes
- XAMPP for Linux: easy-to-install, preconfigured Apache distributions containing MySQL, PHP, Perl, and more
- Source code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the book
- A remastered Ubuntu live CD, set to run all eight applications live
System Requirements
- CPU: Pentium III, 650 MHz. RAM: 256MB (recommended 512MB).
- Hard disk: No space required to run live CD; 250MB of space needed to put XAMPP server and projects on installed system.
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This book promises to be good. The delivery was very quick and I am looking forward to an exciting study sessions.
As always, it was a Good business.
Thanks a lot for this material
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
I would give this -ZERO- stars if I could.
The demos in the book are pretty good. They are simple and basic but they are more than the useless examples you get in most programming books. That is the bait, but the promises made on the cover are not kept. Stay away from this book.
The problem is that this book pretends to offer you the programs to examine, use, modify, and copy. It is a big problem for the simple reason that you must boot from the CD and know quite a bit about Linux to find and get the programs.
When I went to the author’s website it is crawling with bugs virus and my browser immediately died and had problem … from a new install freshly updated WinXP.
This author is a rip-off and a liar as far as I can see. If he was honest he would have a clean web page with a pointer to the programs that did not play games for serious users to load and play with.
DO NOT BUY THIS CRAPPY BOOK! AND THE ATTITUDE OF THE AUTHOR IS BAD SO I WOULD NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM HIM AGAIN.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
A handy thing about Bacon’s book is the CD with the full source code for the 8 applications referred to in the title. This lets him in the narrative concentrate on the key points in building each application. Since you should know from your own experience that any nontrivial app has tons of routine code. The problem is finding (or writing) the crucial code snippets, that encapsulate the key operations.
The examples he gives have been deliberately chosen to be as useful as possible to a wide readership. Like making a shopping cart. Which obviously necessitates hooking to a database with item descriptions and prices. These can be often read only. But the database also needs to be written to, with the user’s purchase and various data that the user enters about herself, like a shipping address. The shopping cart is the archetypal example for ecommerce websites.
On perhaps a more casual note, another chapter describes how to make a blogging website. No ecommerce here. But there is still a need to read and write to a back end database.
You should be aware that the book is not primarily meant to be a first text in either PHP or MySQL. Ideally, you will come to it with some background in both. Its task is to demonstrate how to integrate the two. Frankly, the method of writing PHP commands as HTML comments into an HTML web page (=file) is a total kludge. But that’s scarcely the author’s fault. It’s an ingenious approach used industry wide. Purists in writing source code in some language can reasonably decry the typical code shown in the text. Pragmatically, it works and you should get used to this style.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
I have experienced great difficulty with this book. Its typos, lack of errata and support has me throwing up my hands mid-way through Chap. 5; I give up.
I like Mr. Bacon’s attitude and style, but the silence from both the Author and the Publisher is deafening! I would like to obtain an updated edition or a list of errata, and until I do, I feel as if my time has been wasted.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
I wanted to like this book, but I’m through Chapter 8 and I’m ready to give up. I feel like telling the author off. There is so many mistakes in the code. Most of the scripts don’t work. This book has been a complete waste of time. How do people get away with selling stuff like this?
If anyone can suggest a good book, I’d like to know.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5