Andy Liu
Nice book to read for beginners, good example and stuff to know and learn about are all in this book
Details
This book is a hands-on guide that will help you build your first database driven website. In the fifth edition of this best-selling book, you’ll learn how to use PHP (used on 20 million sites worldwide) to build your own working content management system using entirely free software.
What you will learn
* How to get up and runing with PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux
* Best-practice PHP programming
* Keep your PHP manageable and flexible with OOP principles
* How to build a working ecommerce platform from scratch
Description
Please note: a new edition of this book is available here.
This book is a hands-on guide that will help you build your first database driven website. In the fifth edition of this best-selling book, you’ll learn how to use PHP (used on 20 million sites worldwide) to build your own working content management system using entirely free software. The book also teaches you best practices in database design using MySQL, and covers all the latest technologies.
Who is this for?
This book is aimed at intermediate and advanced web designers looking to make the leap into server-side programming. You’ll be expected to be comfortable with simple HTML, as I’ll make use of it without much in the way of explanation. No knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or JavaScript is assumed or required, but if you do know JavaScript, you’ll find it will make learning PHP a breeze, since these languages are quite similar. By the end of this book, you can expect to have a grasp of what’s involved in building a database driven website. If you follow the examples, you’ll also learn the basics of PHP (a server-side scripting language that gives you easy access to a database, and a lot more) and Structured Query Language(SQL—the standard language for interacting with relational databases) as supported by MySQL, the most popular free database engine available today. Most importantly, you’ll come away with everything you need to start on your very own database driven site!
Creator
Kevin Yank
Kevin Yank is a world-renowned author, speaker and JavaScript expert. He has a passion for making web technology easy to understand by anyone. Yes, even you!
Reviews
Joaquim Matali
Keving Yank manages well to combine serious concepts with casual examples so as to develop a complete CMS of a jokes database driven website from scratch maximizing the security. New concepts are introduced as the steps become more and more difficult and the explanation of the corresponding new code lines (in bold) is clear and precise.
Jim Homme
This book is helping me understand this stuff without jargon, while not talking down to me. Very encouraging.
Aleksey Stetsyura
Great book! Excellent for beginners and contains some goodies for those who already have some experience in PHP. Thank you so much! :)
Eduardo Hernandez
Muy bueno para alguien que esta comenzando a programar en PHP.
Mushtaq Bhat
That one can teach profoundly better if the stuff that one has to learn is transmitted as a narrative with a well thought out “plot” is probably known to many writers of text books but the implementation of this idea in a otherwise boring technical subject is a rarity, especially in programming that has no historical precedents from past centuries. It implies both a firm grasp of the subject matter and a concise awareness of the ultimate purpose of the work fully integrated within a specific methodology. But now add some species so that you are almost totally unaware of the basic grand plan. This is how I felt about this book and about Kevin's genuine desire to teach that what he knows in possibly the most fruitful way for the reader. It displays an amazing awareness and empathy for the reader. Indeed a glorious teacher with a highly original methodology and add to that a laudable aim _ to make any willing and diligent student master a specific subject. This is one of those classic works that demand periodic re-editions to keep up with the newer developments and I hope that in future as PHP will eventually change, it will incorporate those developments and get republished. In my opinion it would be worth any effort.
