Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional

by W. Jason Gilmore, Bob Bryla

This is an adaptation of Jason Gilmore’s best-selling book, Beginning PHP and MySQL. It’s a recognition of the growing use of PHP with commercial databases, Oracle in particular, enabling readers in Oracle-based shops to learn PHP on their chosen platform. Supplying the Oracle expertise is Bob Bryla, co-author of the Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook and many other titles. His easy-going and straightforward style is an excellent match for Jason’s, making their book one of the best things going for those wanting to learn about using PHP with Oracle.

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

797 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