Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

by W. Jason Gilmore, Massimo Nardone

Get started with PHP and MySQL no experience necessary. This fifth edition of a classic best-seller includes detailed instructions for configuring the ultimate PHP 7 and MySQL development environment on all major platforms, complete coverage of the latest additions and improvements to the PHP language, and thorough introductions to MySQL’s most relied-upon features. You'll not only receive extensive introductions to the core features of PHP, MySQL, and related tools, but you'll also learn how to effectively integrate them in order to build robust data-driven applications. Author Frank M. Kromann draws upon more than 20 years of experience working with these technologies to pack this book with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers. Accordingly, you will repeatedly return to this book as both a valuable instructional tool and reference guide. What You Will Learn Who This Book Is For
Anyone who wants to get started using PHP to write dynamic web applications.

Genres: Computers, Reference, Computer Science, Web, Programming

900 pages, Paperback

First published August 24, 2007

Reviews

[Kernel Panic · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive introduction and quick go-to reference manual that doesn't forget to mention the latest advancements in PHP programming practices, such as the OOP approach and the use of the PDO abstraction layer for interacting with databases. However, don't expect this book to help you bring any practical project to fruition: it will cover the theory, and rather extensively for being an introductory text, but you'll have to look somewhere else for the practice. I particularly enjoyed the focus on the security best practices to correctly configure and secure your server (be it local or virtual) and sanitize the UI implementation to mitigate the most common attacks, such as XSS and CSRF. It really does start from zero as it states in the title, guiding you through the most common aspect of PHP, MySQL, jQuery and much more with easy to understand examples.

[Siva]

just well