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	Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications (Negus Software Solutions Series) Jono Bacon Prentice Hall PTR, 2006 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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"Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono's commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you 'hide behind the couch.'"
-From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL...

Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!

Suddenly, it?s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you?ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications—all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.

Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you?ll need to build virtually any application. You?ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

Working from complete examples on the CD-ROM, you?ll create

Generic dynamic Web sitesBlogsDiscussion forumsShopping cartsAuction sitesCalendarsFAQ systemsReusable componentsContent management systemsNews sites

JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntu?s sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an O?Reilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co-founder of LUGRadio?a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.

CD-ROM Includes

XAMPP for Linux: easy-to-install, preconfigured Apache distributions containing MySQL, PHP, Perl, and moreSource code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the bookA remastered Ubuntu live CD, set to run all eight applications live

System Requirements

CPU: Pentium III, 650 MHz. RAM: 256MB (recommended 512MB).Hard disk: No space required to run live CD; 250MB of space needed to put XAMPP server and projects on installed system.

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Promising to be GOOD

This book promises to be good. The delivery was very quick and I am looking forward to an exciting study sessions.

As always, it was a Good business.

Thanks a lot for this material

Tech Editor Desperately Needed

Wait for the 2nd edition. If the book had gone through a thorough tech editing (type in and run the code!) before going to the presses, this might have been a 4-star book.

If you are the type of person that can learn by just looking at code and getting a broad sense of how it works, then there might still be some useful information in here for you. I learn by doing, which made typing in the buggy examples a frustrating experience. While I also learned some by debugging this book, but that is not the experience I paid for. There is no online errata for this book that I am able to find.

If you just want view code without typing it in, the "Live CD" might be of use to you. The code on the CD is apparently a more debugged version of the code shown in the text of the book. The concept of booting up into Linux on a CD to do your own coding PHP and MySQL is not as useful as the publisher makes it out to be, because there is no way to easily save anything you do there.

I started to do my own tech editing of the book around page 40. Here are examples of some of the types of errors you can expect:
Page 42: Database name incorrectly referred to as "perfectproducts." Should be "productsdb."
Page 43: Database column name incorrectly referred to as "if." Should be "id."
Page 45: Missing steps in instructions for setting up database connection. Reader needs to set up user permissions in phpMyAdmin, and also edit code to include the new user information.
Page 68: Table 4-2 column header should be "BLOG_ID" instead of "CAT_ID."
Page 77-78: The sample code will output invalid HTML unless you move around where it writes out the opening and closing paragraph tags.
Page 81: The sample code will output invalid HTML unless you move around where it writes out the closing UL tag.
Page 99: Missing the required opening and closing PHP tags around the code that includes the footer PHP file.
Page 100: Last paragraph should refer to adding code under the "home" link instead of the "categories" link. Instructions say to add the code inside the PHP block, but the non-bolded text above the PHP block needs to be added as well.

Those were freebies. Prentice Hall, the "world's leading educational publisher" should foot the bill to edit the rest.

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