PHP and MySQL Web Development

I have just bought the 4th edition after using the 1st edition for years. I referred to the old book at least a couple of times a week and the new one is even better; bringing it up to date with PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1 but also adding more detail about things like security and AJAX. The new book is 100 pages bigger than the 1st edition.For me this book is perfect, I'm an experienced programmer but not a PHP guru and I find the level about right. I mostly look up PHP functions etc online but if I need an explanation about where and why I might use this function I go to the book.If you are not a total beginner and want one good PHP book I would recommend this one.

I'd got past beginner level with PHP, and I was looking for a book to take me further. This is definitely it. It covers PHP basics very quickly and efficiently – great as a refresher, but I'm not sure how helpful it would be for a novice. Probably not a problem if you're familiar with JavaScript etc. The style is clean and comprehendible, the exercise files are easy to find and download (this can be a problem with other books).It's very thick, and the text is quite small – I wound up buying the Kindle version, too, for portability and legibility. Still, in the morass of PHP books out there, this one delivers the goods.

I've only really skimmed through the book so far, but already I feel this is the best book I could have gone for as someone who has dabbled in PHP but would like to understand better and code better. It gives lots of information on the background of PHP without going on too much about it and the examples feel more useful than most examples I come across in coding books.Small niggles - the formatting in the kindle version is not great. Bullet points display as an "n" but while annoying you can ignore. I suspect the paperback version is better but I don't like cluttering up the bookcase with books that will be out of date in a few years, which is the case with most tech books.It's also a bit confusing when it refers to the CD - since obviously there is no CD with the Kindle version - for those as confused as I was, you need to go to "informit.com" and create an account (I'm not sure if you need to use your amazon email to signup for this to work but that's the one I used). Once you have created an account and are logged in search for the book. Just under the description and share icons is a link "register your product" click on that. It auto filled the form for me and then I clicked "submit". You will then have a link to "Access Bonus Content" this has a zip file with all the source code from the examples within.

A very large but informative book. This helped me greatly when doing my degree in learning these languages. Skills have developed a lot since and this started me on the way.Would recommend this to anyone looking to learn

This book states that it is suitable for beginners yet it clearly assumes some previous knowledge of php. 30 pages in I find myself looking blankly at the page all to frequently having been baffled at what seems like a soup of meaningless words. I will be keeping this book as it is fairly well written and seems quite comprehensive, I look forward to getting back into it after I find a book that can hold my hand whilst I take baby steps.

This is an excellent book with a good layout and explainations. The added advantage is that it also comes with the source code to all examples in the book.This is also an ideal reference book and easy to use.I would highly recommend this PHP and MSQL book to all users at all levels.

A perfect book for an introduction to mysql and php based web design. This book not only explains the basics of mysql and php but gives working examples broken down in stages with clear explanations. This is probably the best introduction to php and mysql you can buy

Very pleased with the book the only thing it arrived a bit late with respect to the arrival day. Overall worth buying it. I strongly recommend it to all CMS designers and Joomla web developers.

PHPを使って一からショッピングカート機能が作れます。中級者向けかと思います。初心者の方でも、全体的な把握をする上で一冊持っていて価値のある本だと思います。

Me ha gustado, es muy extenso, abarca casi todo lo que hay que saber para poder usar PHP en conjunto con Mysql en tus paginas. La verdad es que el punto negativo que le veo es que la maquetacion deja mucho que desear, no tiene hipervinculos por secciones, con lo cual hasta que no lo lees entero de arriba a abajo no tienes forma de acceder directamente a la seccion X.

Mi sto avvicinando allo sviluppo in PHP e MySQL da qualche settimana (Sviluppo Web Applications in .NET da qualche anno), e cercavo un buon libro che comprendesse sia concetti semplici, sintassi ed esempi pratici che tecnologie e concetti più avanzati.Il libro è scritto in maniera chiara, consigliato a tutti quelli che come me, riescono ad afferrare alcuni concetti solo imparandoli dai "Libroni".

I bought this book for my son who is self learning to program, and he has found it invaluable. Thank you

I am an absolute beginner in php and I've attempted to learn from other books what php is all about, but failed. All previous books make a vast amount of assumptions of what you know, and don't give you any hands on practice, but only php codes that make no sense to a beginner.I have completed the first 2 chapters and I am amazed. If the rest of the book is as good, I give it 5-star+. Just from the first two chapters I know how to convert a static form to dynamic using php.PS I only have some html and css knowledge, and I've taken a MySQL course.