Book Review: Learning PHP & MySQL
Another great book from O’Reilly.
This book targets beginners to PHP but NOT total beginners to code and programming – I think that certain explanations of the basic programming concepts, may confuse a some people.
Doesn’t matter though, once you’ve done my free video tutorials (found on this site,) you will be able to breeze through this book.
Besides the basics of PHP programming, the book does a good job teaching basic database theory and concepts – but not so much to bore you to death.
Instead (like the rest of the book,) the coverage of database theory is just enough to get you going with MySQL.
September 27th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Haven’t read this one, although O’Reilley are normally very good.
Another good PHP/MySQL book is by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson: ‘PHP and MySQL wed development”. The publisher is SAMS. My copy certainly has been used.