Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications by Jono Bacon

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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 Jomo Bacon teaches the core skills you'll need to build virtually any application. You'll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cacading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use Pear extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

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Jono Bacon works for Canonical as the Ubuntu community manager and is an established speaker, author, and regular contributor to the Open Source community. As an author, Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and the Official Ubuntu Book, and has written more than 400 published articles in more than 14 publications. Bacon has also contributed as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus, and is an O’Reilly Network weblog author.

In addition, Bacon is a regular contributor to Open Source in a range of projects, a lead developer on the Jokosher (jokosher.org) project, and one of the co-founders of the popular LUGRadio (lugradio.org) podcast–a show with more than 15,000 listeners and an annual event that pulls visitors from around the world.

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December 01, 2006: A handy thing about Bacon's book is the CD with the full source code for the 8 applications referred to in the title. This lets him in the narrative concentrate on the key points in building each application. Since you should know from your own experience that any nontrivial app has tons of routine code. The problem is finding (or writing) the crucial code snippets, that encapsulate the key operations. The examples he gives have been deliberately chosen to be as useful as possible to a wide readership. Like making a shopping cart. Which obviously necessitates hooking to a database with item descriptions and prices. These can be often read only. But the database also needs to be written to, with the user's purchase and various data that the user enters about herself, like a shipping address. The shopping cart is the archetypal example for ecommerce websites. On perhaps a more casual note, another chapter describes how to make a blogging website. No ecommerce here. But there is still a need to read and write to a back end database. You should be aware that the book is not primarily meant to be a first text in either PHP or MySQL. Ideally, you will come to it with some background in both. Its task is to demonstrate how to integrate the two. Frankly, the method of writing PHP commands as HTML comments into an HTML web page (=file) is a total kludge. But that's scarcely the author's fault. It's an ingenious approach used industry wide. Purists in writing source code in some language can reasonably decry the typical code shown in the text. Pragmatically, it works and you should get used to this style.