Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications (Negus Live Linux Series)

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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780132239974
ISBN: 0132239973
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2006-11-24
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR

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Summary: Do not buy this book!
Comment: I cannot stress the fact on how much this book needs editing. I am an intermediate php programmer. I thought that this book would help me build "eight dynamic web applications" without so many errors. I bought the book with the intention to learn, not to help make corrections for the author. You cannot even get through the first application ("Chapter 4: Building a Weblog") example without encountering substantial typos. When going through the examples, I feel like i am back-tracking trying to figure out whether if I typed something wrong or if its the book that printed the material wrong.

I'm actually looking on Amazon to buy another book with better reviews. I wish i looked at the reviews for this book before i bought it, I would have saved me some money.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Tech Editor Desperately Needed
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Promising to be GOOD
Comment: 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

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Summary: What a piece of garbage
Comment: I picked this book up from the local libary and was quite excited. 70 pages later and I gave up in disgust. A great concept completely destroyed by terrible editing. The code, tables and diagrams that are provided are absolutely riddled with errors and none of the projects actually work. I guess that's one day of my life I won't get back.

Avoid this book like the plague.

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Summary: Need to boot from CD to view data, runs this stupid Ubuntu operating system
Comment: Hello, if anyone has this book and has the ability to get into the CD, I would greatly appreciate it if someone can forward me the example files. My email is advancedgraphics at hotmail dot com.

I booted from the CD, ran through all these loading thigs, then when it's ready to run, tells me some error and from there I'm lost into script hell...

The book is understandable, seen some errors, I wouldn't recomend buying this book if you are a beginner like me looking to learn php.

Editorial Reviews:

"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 sites
Blogs
Discussion forums
Shopping carts
Auction sites
Calendars
FAQ systems
Reusable components
Content management systems
News 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 more
Source code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the book
A 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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