Mark Hensler — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:39:51 +0000

I don't know anything about any of those books.

The one book I have on PHP is the PHP Bible by Tim Converse and Joyce Park (published by IDG). It does have info on DB sites, but it's only a small part of the book.

Need a book...

davidjaymz — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:27:02 +0000

Hi guys,
Rather than start a new thread I thought I'd hijack this one seens its sort of relevant...
I need a book to teach me how to make a database driven website, I think php mySql is the way to go and have seen some on amazon and fat brain but don't know if any are any good, any ideas?

Thanx in advance
DavidJaymz
Here are the books I'm thinking of:
PHP and MySQL Web Development
Luke Welling, Laura Thomson

Database Driven Web Sites
By Joline Morrison,Joline Morrison

Sams Teach Yourself Active Web Database Programming in 21 Days
By Dina Fleet,Matt Warren (Editor)

Building Database Applications on the Web Using Php3
By Craig Hilton,Bjorn Borud,Jeff Willis

Create Dynamic Webpages Using PHP and MySQL
David Tansley

PHP: Fast and Easy Web Development
J. Meloni

Thanx again: DavidJaymz

sersun — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 04:25:35 +0000

I've read a few PHP books. Here's the best:

"Professional PHP Programming" by Wrox. I am a beginning scripter, and it was perfect. Has lots of working examples. Hope this helps

Steven

Adrian J. Moreno — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:39:14 +0000

I've got PHP for the WWW from Peach Pit. It seems like a decent intro to the language. I'm an experienced Cold Fusion programmer and I just needed a quick intro/refernce and this does it.

Gyrbo — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:02:22 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan Jack
I recently bought Beginning PHP from Wrox press and it seems to be pretty good so far. I'd heard good things about their books from various developer sites. I'll let you know more after the weekend (hopefully...) when I've had a chance to get into it more.

(unfortunately I didn't find out until after I bought it that I can't install PWS etc. on Win ME... GRRRR! I know, I should have gotten a better OS... will have to work from my website host instead, which is a pain)

Can't you just install Apache?

mairving — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:03:44 +0000

This one called PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson is one of the best. Here is a review on Amazon.

Megan — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:58:03 +0000

I recently bought Beginning PHP from Wrox press and it seems to be pretty good so far. I'd heard good things about their books from various developer sites. I'll let you know more after the weekend (hopefully...) when I've had a chance to get into it more.

(unfortunately I didn't find out until after I bought it that I can't install PWS etc. on Win ME... GRRRR! I know, I should have gotten a better OS... will have to work from my website host instead, which is a pain)

mjames — Wed, 04 Jul 2001 02:47:07 +0000

I am in the same boat as you and would be interested to hear any comments from more experienced PHP gurus. Make sure to use php.net extensively, too.