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Even if you’re completely new to PHP, MySQL, and Web database development, this book will guide you through every step of building powerful, database-driven, dynamic Web sites. Direct from the world’s top scripting instructor, Ellie Quigley, PHP and MySQL by Example illuminates every concept with tested code examples, screen shots showing program output, and clear, line-by-line explanations. Classroom-tested in Ellie Quigley’s Silicon Valley training courses and at Marko Gargenta’s Marakana training company in San Francisco, this book takes you from the simplest PHP scripting and SQL querying techniques all the way to dynamic, database driven Web site construction with PHP and MySQL. From simple fill-in forms to program security and debugging, it’s the only PHP/MySQL book you’ll ever need! This book covers - Complete PHP fundamentals, including operators, strings, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and more
- PHP QuickStart for more advanced readers—makes you productive with PHP in the space of just fifteen book pages
- Essential Web development techniques, from file handling to validating user input with regular expressions
- Powerful PHP features, including user-defined functions and self-processing PHP Forms
- Day-to-day MySQL administration
- A complete SQL tutorial for creating queries, retrieving data, and writing data with MySQL
- Session management and cookies
- Object Oriented PHP
- Best practices for using PHP and MySQL together
Nearly 100,000 professionals and power users have relied on Ellie Quigley’s books to master scripting languages. With PHP and MySQL by Example, you can, too. And once you’ve become an expert, you’ll turn to this book constantly as your go-to source for reliable answers, solutions, and code. About the CD-ROMThe CD-ROM contains versions of PHP and MySQL for Windows and UNIX/Linux, plus a comprehensive code library for creating your own sites and database-enabled Web applications, including this book’s powerful Art Gallery case study application. Lab SolutionsSolutions to the end-of-chapter labs are available at www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0131875086. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Ellie Quigley | | Paperback:
| 912 pages | | Publisher:
| Prentice Hall | | Publication Date:
| December 02, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0131875086 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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 Excellent starter's php bookSep 29, 2009
Of the numerous books on php for beginners, I think this is the best I have perused.
Good explanations of everything and good overviews to get the general picture. I would highly recommend PHP and MySQL by Example.
 The worst - almost unreadableSep 05, 2009
I often see 1 star reviews for textbooks I have used and think that the reviewers must be too picky, or they are outright wrong. Oftentimes the 1 star reviews for programming books come from those who the learning style doesn't appeal to, and often to either well-experienced programmers or total beginners. This was not the case with this book. It was a required book for my class and, two weeks into the semester, I am basically chucking it and hoping for the best buying another and matching it to the syllabus. There is the fact that it is somewhat outdated, but this is a minor fact. There is the greater problem that concepts are brought up with no explanation and no reference to how they relate to what the book is handling at the time, but even this I could grudgingly deal with. What is completely atrocious about this book is the number of errors. I'm not talking minor typos, either. This book screws up syntax in the code constantly. It is so bad, and so frequent, that any example the book makes has to be evaluated line by line, because it seems that it screws up almost as often as it gets it right. I'm not kidding. I would bet (uneducated guess, because I give up with it) that a good 25% of the examples used would not even run due to errors. I've never ripped a textbook this bad before and hopefully never will have to again, but this book is, to me, ABSOLUTELY worthless as a teaching tool.
 OK but riddled with errorsApr 09, 2009
I purchased this as the required textbook for a class on PHP / My SQL. I have suggested to the instructor that he find a different book for future classes.
Some people may like the "By Example" format, but I don't. It tends to limit your ability to write code to what you've seen examples of. In many cases, the book doesn't delve into the nuts and bolts of different commands and functions for you to do much but blindly copy the authors' examples. And THAT'S when the problems start.
As many other reviewers have noted, the book is riddled with typos and errors. For a new student, especially one without a deep programming background, these could be extremely frustrating. Is my code wrong? Or did I copy one of the authors' mistakes? I have done a fair amount of programming so I was able to catch a lot of the mistakes while reading.
This does not include the many simple spelling errors that should have been caught by a spell-checker.
The worst chapter of the book by far was Chapter 6 on String Functions. An alarming number of the "Format" sections (where the authors BRIEFLY explain the function and its arguments) and the code examples had some type of error(s) in them. My personal favorite is the "str_ireplace()" function. In the section header, it is spelled "stri_replace()". In the text of the section it is spelled "stri_replace()" and "str_ireplace()" in different places. Finally, to hedge their bets, the function is listed in the Index as "stri_ireplace()"! This is just one of MANY MANY examples.
Also, the book is printed all in grayscale. The lack of color inhibits readability.
The back cover of the book says that the book "illuminates every concept with tested code examples...". After reading (most) of the book, there is no way this is a completely accurate statement.
A final complaint is the writing style. The authors sometimes repeat the same, or similar text, a maddening number of times as you are reading through a topic. They really would have benefited from a more critical editor.
In summary, I don't like the format or the visual appearance of the book, I'm not wild about the "By Example" concept, and the book has too many errors to be taken seriously.
Too many errors!Feb 25, 2009
Absolutely a great book for beginners, but towards half-way through 'til the end, there were just too many errors. Just about every example has an error that prevents the entire script to be ran. Although I've learned a lot from correcting these errors from having general computer programming knowledge, others may find it too much of a waste of time because you'll end up spending more time finding out why the examples in the book aren't working RATHER THAN learning. Without the errors, this book would have easily earned at least 4/5 stars as a great introductory course through PHP & MySQL.
In summary, don't buy this book. It does not deserve your money in its current condition. If anything, borrow it from a friend or check it out at the library.
File under "comedy"Aug 27, 2008
Here's everything you'll ever need to know about the only PHP book you'll ever need:
1. This isn't it.
2. Zend has outsourced all of their online training nonsense to one of this book's authors, so if you have any doubt as to whether or not his bountiful errors and omissions were worth paying $40 for, take care not to make the mistake of paying $1,000+ for more of the same.
3. All the 5 star reviews are fake.
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