Editorial Reviews:
Quickly master dynamic, database-driven Web development?no experience necessary!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.
Customer Reviews:
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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. Too many errors!
The book and cd code are error prone. The co-author writes a five star review trying to come off as an instructor in a php boot camp. Come on!! This book should not even have been published in this state.  Well Written, But Too Many Errors
I purchased this book for a class and have been going through the examples on my own. Several of the examples have typos that result in the example scripts not running. Some of the errors are as blatant as leaving out closing brackets on HTML tags. Others I still haven't figured out. There is no errata online, which is disappointing.
A programming book written for beginners really needs to have extra proofing done by the author (a typical proofer in a publishing house wouldn't understand the code and couldn't catch errors) prior to being published, and it is clear that this book wasn't proofed very well at all.
If it were not for the errors, I would recommend this book.
This book was not reviewed before printing
This book contains many, many, many errors. The book itself gives the URL for the publisher's website, claiming the errata is posted there. It isn't. Shame on the reviewers and on the editor for allowing this to go to print with so many mistakes.
On a positive note, finding and correcting the errors has helped me learn the material more thoroughly, and I'm finding there are some other great books out there on PHP and MySQL. Great layout but contains numerous errors and zero support.
I purchased this book for the retail price of $49.99 at my local bookstore. I did this based on the preface that states an errata, as well as the lab solutions, can be found online. Since I know all code books contain some errors, I usually look to see if these errors, when discovered, have been posted on the book's site.
Well, even though the book states there there is an errata, truth and in fact, there isn't. When I emailed the publisher they stated "Thank you for purchasing our book. I'm afraid we've not yet compiled an
errata. Would you be willing to share the errors you found with me, so
that I can inform the author?" Strike One.
The preface also states that the solutions to the labs, that usually end each chapter, can also be found online. Truth and in fact, only 4 of the labs can be found online while the other 10 or so are not posted. Strike Two.
The last problem I had with this book is the amount of errors. As I stated before I expect books to contain errors. We are all human and I hold no grudges for this. But to be honest, this book contains the most amount of errors I have ever seen. Did they have someone proof read this? The publisher told me "I apologize for the errors you're finding, but I admit that in a first printing, which is what you have, this is not unusual." Strike Three.
I will say that the publisher did deliver excellent customer service, and while not refunding the money for this title, they promised to send another book based on the same subject. I have not received it as of today, but if I don't by Friday, I'll update this review.
As for the book itself. The first few chapters are done really well and explain to a beginner, like myself, the concepts of PHP. But when you move past Chpater 5 you start finding numerous errors, one of which had me thinking I did something wrong and spending over 2 hours trying to work it out. (The errors in the book are also on the CD-Rom files that come with it!)
This book has a lot of potential, but because this is the first printing I would suggest staying away until they either fix the errors or keep their word and publish the errata and lab solutions.
Oh yeah, and beware of the first review... isn't he also the co-author? He might be a little bias. More Customer Reviews:
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