[Nick Presta]

Purchase: PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development book

Here's the index:

1. Intro. and Installation Configuration
2. Creating PHP Pages
3. Using PHP with MySQL
4. Using Tables to Display Data
5. Form Elements: Letting the User Work with Data
6. Letting the User Edit the Database
7. Validating User Input
8. Handling and Avoiding Errors
9. Building Databases
10. E-mailing with PHP
11. User Logins, Profiles and Personalization
12. Building a Conent Management System (CMS)
13. Mailing Lists
14. Online Selling: A Quick Way to E-Commerce
15. Creating a BBS
16. Using Log Files to Improve your Site
17. Troubleshooting
Apendix A - I: General help, functions, data types, references, text-editor comparisons, Introduction to PEAR, AMP installation.

Sounds good?

[Andross]

Purchase? . . . Are you meaning to say you purchased a server program or what?

[Nick Presta]

Sorry, my fault. It's a book I bought from Indigo.

[loz]

I think I have that same book...PHP 5 and MySQL right?

[Max]

I think I have the previous edition "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Welling and Thompson. That's my preferred book/resource when it comes to PHP/MySQL web development after trying about 4 different books.

[loz]

I havent started reading much of my book just cause im not to interested in it right now although I should be ><

[Nick Presta]

loz, on Jul 27 2005, 07:39 PM, said:

I think I have that same book...PHP 5 and MySQL right?

They get into PHP5 although this is mainly about PHP4. The bolded title is the exact name of the book.

[Andross]

Sounds good, you shouldn't need PHP5, it isn't being widely supported yet. I can't really rate it though, since I don't even know the book in the first place :)

[Elliott]

Well if you download and install PHP5 onto your own server, then learning PHP5 wouldn't be a waste at all. Make way for progress. I can't really rate a book by its index though Nick.

[loz]

but of course u can agatio
It looks like it covers everything I would need BUT one part you cant judge is how they teach it to you...but u can partially judge it by the order and content of the book

[Elliott]

Actually, those chapters could be full of unhelpful information and badly explained examples. So no, you can't judge a book from its index.

[Eugine]

But usually to get an idea of what the book is about, especially when in a bookstore, compare indexes of different books and see what each got.

Yeah like all say, I can't rate that book.

[Nick Presta]

I'm going to be editing this post with some pictures and screenshots from the book. Hold your horses >_>

[loz]

crazy...lol, taking pictures O_O;;

[Kubjelle]

The only(almost) difference between PHP 4.3 and 5 is that PHP5 has support to objectorientating.(PEAR)

It is hard to rate your book by just the index, but this series is usual good.

[Nick Presta]

Another big difference between PHP4 and PHP5 is the way PHP passes variables.

PHP4 passes variables by value while PHP5 passes them by reference. PHP5 also provides improved error handling and integration of external object from other sources (like Java).

[Kubjelle]

Yeah, but those doesn't change the syntax..

[Nick Presta]

I know. I was just telling you a difference.

Anyways, if you want to see what the book is like, check out the "php practice lessons" topic.

[Kubjelle]

Yeah, when I said the differences, I meant the differences in the syntax. I just tought everybody should know. ^^