Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

by W. Jason Gilmore

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Fifth Edition is a major update of W. Jason Gilmore's authoritative book on PHP and MySQL. The latest edition includes detailed instructions for configuring the ultimate PHP and MySQL development environment on all major platforms, complete coverage of the latest additions and improvements to the PHP language, an introduction to unit testing using PHPUnit, the amazing Laravel framework and powerful Doctrine ORM, and in-depth instruction regarding 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 Jason Gilmore draws upon more than fifteen 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. Some of the book's highlights include:

Detailed instructions regarding installing PHP, MySQL and several popular web servers A thorough introduction to the PHP language, including its string handling, networking, and object-oriented features Coverage of advanced PHP topics, including PHPUnit, Doctrine, and Laravel An extensive overview of MySQL's fundamental features, including supported data types, database management syntax, trigger, view, and stored routine syntax, and import/export capabilities

What you'll learn Configure a killer PHP and MySQL development environment for all major platforms, including Windows, OS X, and Linux. Understand the nuances of object-oriented programming through a comprehensive two chapter introduction to the topic and PHP's associated features. Gain valuable insight into best practices by learning all about automated unit testing using PHPUnit and powerful MVC frameworks such as Laravel. Effectively manage your MySQL data by choosing from one or several of the powerful graphical administration tools introduced in this book. Understand intermediate and advanced MySQL features such as stored procedures, triggers, and views.

Who this book is for

Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fifth Edition is for the reader seeking a comprehensive introduction to PHP, MySQL, and how to effectively use these two popular technologies together. It's for the reader who is struggling with configuring a proper development environment, and who is perhaps having a hard time grasping the finer points of object-oriented development. Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fifth Edition is an excellent choice for any reader who is in search of a friendly, thorough, and no-nonsense approach to ramping up their web development knowledge in a hurry. "

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

824 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