Wandschneider, Marc ( Author )(Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL [With CDROM]) Paperback

by Marc Wandschneider

The programmer's Guide to building robust web applications with PHP and MySQLThis is a comprehensive, practical guide for programmers who want to develop production-quality, database-enabled web applications with PHP and MySQL. Long-time developer Marc Wandschneider systematically addresses the entire not only coding, but also upfront application, user interface and database design, PLUS security, testing, and more.You'll walk through building three applications from start to a calendaring system, a weblog engine, and an e-commerce store. Along the way, you'll master essential strategies for creating robust web database applications and learn how to avoid the common pitfalls that trip up many developers moving to PHP and MySQL.Starts with a complete primer on PHP for developers including coverage of code organization, reuse, and object-oriented PHP Contains detailed treatments of data access, including transactions, foreign keys, and indexes Presents powerful data validation techniques utilizing PHP regular expressions Walks through planning web applications, including user interfaces and user management Offers systematic guidance on securing web applications from end to end Covers a wide range of implementation issues including internationalization, error handling, data validation, debugging, session management, and deployment Includes detailed chapters on XML, XML-based web services, and the PEAR framework for reusable PHP components Shows how to work with the Oracle and PostgreSQL databases

Genres: Programming

Unknown Binding

First published October 6, 2005

Reviews

[Bryan Higgs · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good book, written by someone who clearly has a lot of experience in real-world Web development.

While using PHP and MySQL in his examples, this book is really more of a Web development book, giving sage advice about how to develop many different aspects of how best to do that. There are more in-depth books about PHP and about MySQL (and relational databases in general), but the author gives a balanced and down-to-earth practical description of these technologies.

There were a small number of typos (actually, very good for a book of this size and complexity), most of which were unimportant. One caused me to question something, and I looked for an errata for the book. I could only find a promise from the author to provide one on his blog, but didn't find it.

If you plan on using PHP and MySQL, my guess is that you'll need more detail than this book supplies, but the advice that it imparts is likely to be very valuable to you.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an EXCELLENT book to read on learning the fundamentals of php web-based applications. The section I extremely enjoy is the php and database structuring, they wrote it nicely and the graphs and pictures help describe what they're talking about.

A definitely "Must have" for people starting with PHP or wanting to become a web developer of some sort.