Beginning PHP and MYSQL: From Novice to Professional

by W. Jason Gilmore

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Fourth Edition is a major update of W. Jason Gilmore's authoritative book on PHP and MySQL. The fourth edition includes a complete coverage of PHP 5.3 features, including namespacing, an update of AMP stack installation and configuration, updates to Zend Framework, coverage of MySQL Workbench, and much more. 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. This book is written for developers seeking to take advantage of the PHP language and MySQL database to create powerful web applications. About The Author: W. Jason Gilmore has seven years experience of working with these technologies. He has packed this book with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers. Table Of Contents: ?Introducing PHP ?Configuring Your Environment ?PHP Basics ?Functions ?Arrays ?Object-Oriented PHP ?Advanced OOP Features ?Error and Exception Handling ?Strings and Regular Expressions ?Working with the File and Operating System ?PEAR ?Date and Time ?Forms ?Authenticating Your Users ?Handling File Uploads ?Networking ?PHP and LDAP ?Session Handlers ?Templating with Smarty ?Web Services ?Secure PHP Programming ?SQLite ?Building Web Sites for the World ?MVC and the Zend Framework ?Introducing MySQL ?Installing and Configuring MySQL ?The Many MySQL Clients ?MySQL Storage Engines and Datatypes ?Securing MySQL ?Using PHP with MySQL ?Introducing PDO ?Stored Routines ?MySQL Triggers ?MySQL Views ?Practical Database Queries ?Indexes and Searching ?Transactions ?Importing and Exporting Data Special Features: This book is written For Developers seeking to take advantage of the PHP language and MySQL database to create powerful web applications.

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