Recommend PHP & MySQL book for beginners?

cucolin@ · 07-18-2007, 05:03 PM

I have seen these two:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cus...ustomerReviews
and
http://safari.oreilly.com/0131875086

I'm a beginner in this subject. Can anybody recommend a good book that goes straight to the point giving examples and how to do things rather than having to read 5-10 pages to know what <?php phpinfo()?> does.

thanks for any help!

Defunct · 07-18-2007, 05:14 PM

The link to the book on amazon.com is one that I used in a database programming class.

The information in the book was accurate and concise. However, I found the layout of the book to be confusing.

I also used this book extensively and found it to be much better for PHP:
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Nutshell-O...4796482&sr=1-5

As far as a pure SQL book that is good I have no idea. The textbook for SQL and relational database programming that I used in class was one of the most complicated books I have ever read. Here it is in case you are curious:
http://www.amazon.com/Database-Manag...4796706&sr=1-2

Matt

cucolin@ · 07-18-2007, 08:10 PM

Thanks Defunct, I also like that book. There are no perfect books. I was looking for a book with combined contents: PHP & MySQL. thanks

gabebster · 07-18-2007, 09:30 PM

The book I bought was PHP and MySQL Web Development. I went through this book in about a week, I ended up making a little forum type website. If your not trying to do web development, this book is still a good source for writing php/mysql scripts.

gabebster

cucolin@ · 07-19-2007, 10:11 AM

Is there a forum/sub-forum here for books(recommended,book reviews)? I might be helpful for all of us. thanks

cucolin@ · 07-19-2007, 12:11 PM

I found it! Thanks

bulliver · 07-19-2007, 02:06 PM

I purchased, and have found very useful the "platypus" book from O'Reilley:
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Database-A...4811851&sr=1-2

cucolin@ · 09-27-2007, 01:55 PM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cus...ustomerReviews

It goes straight to the point!

chrism01 · 09-27-2007, 11:42 PM

A good book is nice to have, but FYI, the relevant sites dev.mysql.com and www.php.net have lots of examples as well as definitions if you drill into them and they're free.

Wim Sturkenboom · 09-28-2007, 01:49 AM

I started with Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache by Julie C Meloni and added PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thompsonm (see post #4) later to my library.

In my opinion the first one is more for the starter, but quite complete (including setup of AMP), the second one is a bit more advanced.

Never regretted buying either of them.