Product Description

If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You'll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You'll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You'll practice what you've learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.

This book will help you:

• Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming
• Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
• Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
• Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
• Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library
  
• Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment
• Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications

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Product Details

Publisher	O'Reilly Media
ISBN	0596157134
Features	ISBN13: 9780596157135 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Format	Paperback
Author	Robin Nixon
EAN	9780596157135
Label	O'Reilly Media
Edition	1
Dewey Decimal Number	006.7
Studio	O'Reilly Media
Number Of Pages	528
Title	Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)
Publication Date	2009-07-14
Manufacturer	O'Reilly Media

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Customer Reviews

A very useful guide book

Review by Angelo, 2010-08-02

It's really hard to believe it covers php, mysql and javascript in such a small book. It describes and introduces these languages in a very clear way. The author's writing ability is amazing. I hope he can write more books like this to help people learn new programming language efficiently.

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Another misleading title - this book is another joke.

Review by Marc Overmars, 2010-07-24

First of all, I rarely write reviews. Bt I find this book troubling.


I don't know who to blame, the author or the review.

The problem with people reviewing books is subjectivity. Meaning Just because you find a book helpful, doesn't mean it will be helpful to others. Like when people say things like "Great Book" or "Just what I needed." How the f*** does that translate to anything meaningful?

If you are new to PHP, Javascript and MYSQL, stay away from this book.

1. There is no way you can cover PHP, Javascript and MYSQL. in a book with less then 530 pages.

A book on the Subject of MYSQL alone has over 1500 pages, three times the number of pages in this book that covers three areas of programming. Does that say anything? So the MYSQL section of this book has about 150 pages compare to 1500 pages!!

2. This book does not cover basics so the author and or the people making a review should have at least acknowledged they are not novice to programming.

3. Reading this book is like falling asleep in one place and waking up in another place.

4. The title is extremely misleading - "Learning" should be removed from the title and replaced with "Doing more with" or "getting a step ahead." "Not learning."


Waste of time and money.


M

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Best Book Introducing PHP, MySQL and JavaScript

Review by R. Chou, 2010-07-17

Perhaps your like me where learning to write code for myself to be very difficult. I never took a computer programming classes so I lack many fundamentals and concepts. I've always had an easier time with HTML and CSS as those are not programming languages rather just input and output with properties and structures to learn.

As for learning a programming language like PHP (server-side) or JavaScript (browser-side) I've tried it all. From taking to websites that offer the basics and concepts such as free resources like W3Schools and Tizag. Sure, I start reading the code and know what going on but fundamentally, to write my own stuff, it was very difficult.

Found out about this book and it offered the three technologies I have been most earning to learn. This book does a great job to introduce each technology, the concepts about it and takes you step by step with some good code examples. It then goes to have you bring it all together to build your own simple dynamic social site, albeit, extremely bareboned, you'll see the power in using all three.

Here is a breakdown of each part:

1. PHP
2. MySQL
3. JavaScript
4. Emerging Technology (AJAX)
5. Building your own with what you learned

Its a good way to learn as it keeps you focused on a certain subject. Also, the pace is not too fast. As for starting with PHP, its a good way to lead into MySQL. Finally, by the time your starting to learn the basics of JavaScript, you'll already be familiar with what was taught in PHP regarding variables, strings, functions, arrays and objects.

Introducing AJAX really elevates ones perspective of the potential of using all three together to create dynamic and live websites.

This book will not make you an expert in any of the technologies, but it does its job. It introduces you programming like no other book I've read before. Trust me, I've tried to learn from tutorials, websites and books that focus on just a single technology and none comes close to helping me learn.

This is the first book to read for anyone interested in becoming a web developer that has never learned a programming language before.

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good for all three, not good for just php

Review by J. Maxwell, 2010-06-21

decent book. covers the basics of php, sql and javascript. goes into a great deal on security and logins, which is good. the author doesn't get too wordy, and sticks with covering the main points instead of ranting about nonsense like some other books i've read from oreilly. this alone gives it 5 stars as you can actually learn something from it besides being bored to death reading paragraph after paragraph about the author's grandmother and then trying to tie that into what the actual book is about... >_<

i got this book hoping it would be php focused, and cover the interactions of php and mysql/javascript. unfortunately, what it covers is the basics of php, sql and javascript, trying to teach you each on its own. having already known sql and javascript, i skipped a lot of this book. also there's some stuff on yui and html forms, which i find unnecessary. the templates section could have been longer... also, as a heads up, it just covers the sql language, instead of focusing on mysql specifics, which was a disappointment.

good if you want to learn all three, not good if you just want it for php...

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Great Book

Review by Niral B. Modi, 2010-06-17

I own this book and found it an extremely interesting read. We conduct PHP trainings and have referred this book as a textbook to our students. Its an easy read for our students also.

Niral Modi
TOPS Technologies
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