PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual QuickPro Guide)

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It hasn't taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there's no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that users can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. This guide is indispensable for Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something more dynamic. The companion Web site includes source code, support forums, and extra tutorials. In addition to being updated for the most recent releases of MySQL and PHP, this new edition offers 25% new material, including updated examples for improved clarity and comprehension and new installation instructions for PHP, MySQL, and other related technologies.

Customer Reviews:

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!.......2007-10-05

I purchased this book having absolutely zero PHP or MySQL experience. I had just finished reading a book on HTML and CSS (my only coding experience by the way) with the intention of creating a dynamic web site but first needed to learn how to do it.

Larry's book was EXTREMELY HELPFUL in teaching a total beginner such as myself how to read, write and understand PHP and MySQL scripts. Not only are the scripts and exercises in the book easy to learn, they are also incredibly practical and transferable in terms of customizing for use on personal projects. There are all kinds of wonderful scripts that can be reused hundreds of times once they have been written.

By far, one of the greatest things about this book, is that the author, Larry Ullman has an online forum which he moderates and personally answers questions from all the people who have purchased one of his many books.

I have not read any of Larry's other books yet, but I can honestly say that his teaching style in this one is absolutely fantastic and I would highly recommend it to anyone with a desire to learn PHP and MySQL!!!

I give this book 100 stars!!!

Great chapters on MySQL.......2007-08-24

I have had this book lying around the office for about a year, but never opened it because I program with Coldfusion, not php. But recently I have been working with a MySQL database and needed to read up on it. I had already read "Teach yourself MySQL in 10 minutes a day" and found that to be a bit confusing. I don't think it lays enough groundwork. So I thought, what the heck I'll read the chapters on MySQL in this book. They were excellent! The author lays the groundwork and gets you up to speed in just two chapters. The book is worth the price for just the sections on MySQL.

Lots of pages, low on advanced content........2007-08-08

This is a huge book, approximately 665 pages, however it is quite hard to find anything of help in it. It's great if you are going to go through and do all of the examples, I'm sure you would learn something from it, but it's terrible when you want a quick answer, or you really need to know the details on something. I frequently find myself searching the net instead of this book because it is huge and there is no good way to find the answers. Additionally, when you do find the answers it is just a continuation of a previous example and does not explain in depth on how to use the various functions and such.

In conclusion, it's probably just fine if you are a student and want to go page by page and read the book and learn by examples. But it's terrible as a quick reference, and for more advanced users needing in-depth information you should look elsewhere.

Excellent starter.......2007-06-08

We had to hire a programmer to construct a MySql database and construct the PHP code to complete the site project. Time was critical.
After the job was done, however, I had the time to teach myself the basics of MySql, especially, and enough PHP to modify the new code, or at least understand what was done.
I am still going through the book as time permits, but the book is an excellent starter, and gets you through the basics with excellent examples, well-written explanations and plenty of screen prints to show you what you should see onscreen. I really like the MySql section. I would highly recommend this book to anyone anxious to get up to speed on MySql and PHP.

Practical, project-oriented approach.......2007-05-14

This book was an excellent introduction for someone like me, a professional programmer with no web programming experience, to get started. The project being carried through the book was broad enough to cover a diverse set of topics, and the code examples permitted exploration and experimentation. It doesn't cover object-oriented PHP, but that can be picked up later. I don't think the book will serve as a reference later, but it provides a lot of pointers to other reference information, including the web site associated with the book.

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

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PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Larry Ullman
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PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual QuickPro Guide)

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PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual QuickPro Guide)
Larry Ullman
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Binding: Paperback

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Professor Graziano's study, the first attempt to investigate the impact of human cognitive processes on our understanding of money supply, promises to shake up the fiscal establishment and bring down a number of cherished shibboleths. Using the conceptual tools of cognitive psychology, Professor Graziano subjects our monetary beliefs, measurements, and communications to an incisive, original analysis that may overturn current ideas about the way money supply should be measured and reported and thus affect a broad range of financial/investment decisions.

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What seven sins and the pursuit of happiness have in common

Seven Deadly Sins: Common Reader Edition
Angus Wilson
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology

ASIN: 1585790435

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A diverting, delightful, surprising treasury. With a new Introduction by Alain de Botton.

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What seven sins and the pursuit of happiness have in common.......2002-10-10

Sins are definitely out of fashion. The last time I came across the Seven Deadly Sins of Envy, Pride, Covetousness, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust and Anger, it was in a glossy Singaporean magazine for the trendy crowd. Under each of the headings it featured big cars, expensive condos, the current "IN"-nightspots, the newest restaurants, fashionable jewelry, designer clothes and so on. The word "sin" may have made monks and Victorians tremble; but we just shiver in anticipation of the latest thrill. Alain de Botton captures this change in attitude perfectly in his 5-page afterword: "[Today] our concerns are of a different order. We worry about whether we are cheerful or depressed, fulfilled or low in self-esteem. We worry about happiness, not sin and virtue."

"The Seven Deadly Sins" have originally been published in 1962 by The Sunday Times, and authors from England have written all seven contributions. The book does not rank the sins in any order (rankings are a very American obsession, and it seems the English have not been infected yet in the early sixties). However, it is very fitting for our democratic society to begin with ENVY, Angus Wilson's contribution, and to end the book with ANGER, W. H. Auden's contribution. Envy is the quintessential democratic "sin." Alain de Botton reflects that "envy comes from comparison and [...] the habit for everyone to compare themselves to everyone else is a particularly modern, democratic one." People envy only those who they feel themselves to be like: "There are few successes more unendurable than those of our closest friends [and] it follows that the more people we take to be our equals, the more we will be at risk of dissatisfaction." Which explains why a society of equals does not automatically lead to more happiness for its individual members. Anger is also a very democratic "sin" because anger tends to arise from a sense of entitlement: "We aren't overwhelmed by anger whenever we are denied an object we desire, only when we believe ourselves entitled to obtain it" (Alain de Botton). A sense of entitlement comes with democracy: we are not just in pursuit of happiness, we assume we are entitled to it.

Wedged between the highlights of Wilson's and Auden's articles are contributions by Edith Sitwell on PRIDE (a tongue-in-cheek confession to the "virtue" of pride), Cyril Connolly on COVETOUSNESS (a very funny short story about obsessive greed), Patrick Leigh-Fermor on GLUTTONY (an indigestible, rambling piece of writing - skip this part of the menu!), Evelyn Waugh on SLOTH ("Sloth is the condition in which a man is fully aware of the proper means of his salvation and refuses to take them," the state of rejecting the "spiritual good" which - in modern parlance - leads to depression, the contemporary cousin of sloth), and finally Christopher Sykes on LUST (a fine example of British common sense).

If we worry about happiness, not sin and virtue, why should we read about "The Seven Deadly Sins" at all? Why worry about the "good" when we can go out and have "fun" instead? The answer is: the "good" is about the value we attribute to our lives looking forward and looking back, the "fun" is just living it. In general, we are bad at "just living" or "living in the moment." but experts in reflecting on the past and planning for the future. It is a smart decision to build on our expertise and put some meaning into our lives to make looking back and forward more enjoyable. After all, the good life and the happy life are complementary, not mutually exclusive. Alain de Botton points it out just so well: "If we listen to pre-Christian philosophers, there is never a conflict between happiness and goodness. For Socrates, the sinful man is at the same time the miserable man, the good one the happy one. It's only with the arrival of Christianity that a conflict starts to appear and that, unwittingly, it starts to seem as though being good is dull and not likely to lead one to happiness, while sinfulness is bad, but actually rather fun."

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Mixing the raw power of rock and roll with the complex textures of classical music and the fluidity of jazz, Yes created a startling new sound that swept them from the London club scene to world stages. In spite of internal conflicts, the group has managed to stay together for over 30 years. Combining biography, set lists, a complete list of tour dates, memorabilia, photographs, bootleg information, album details, and an introduction by the current members of Yes, this retrospective is a collector's dream.

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Close. . . but not to the edge.......2004-03-06

I'm not a Yes appreciator who either knows nor cares whether "Fragile" was released on a Tuesday morning or a Wednesday afternoon. But if you inhabit the obsessive-compulsive end of the Yes fan spectrum, this book is for you.

It's a reasonably good source of early Yes history -- even if most of the information was well-covered in the Welch book from a few years earlier, and in the Hedges book from the late 70s (out of print but also worth tracking down).

Stylistically, Watkinson's book is written with an "I've bought every t-shirt the band ever issued" brand of blind enthusiasm that cynical readers might find grating. But novice or terminally hardcore Yes fans will eat it up with no problem.

The only crude note is the negative, mean-spirited introduction written by keyboard player Rick Wakeman. It's so bad it's almost funny. The band, their fans, and this otherwise positive book deserve much better.

Has to be the best book on Yes ever.......................2003-05-27

It's funny that some people can give it 1 star and others 5 stars when if you go to the book store and apart from CW book really there is nothing to buy like this on Yes at all. Where CW book fails is in it's pick-up-ability!! what I mean is David's book is meant to be picked up and refered to often unlike CW book. You get so much from the wonderful mix of images and information. No other book 'EVER' in the nearly 40 years of Yes has given Yes fans so much information in one spot. I had never seen such a complete family tree or record, bootleg and allsorts of info before, it's a Yes fans dream of book, I say well done David you can see the love of the band in this book....anyway must pick it up again, go get it soon oh soon it's a blast you will not regret it.Love xxxLE

Perpetual Change.......2003-01-15

This is not a bad book. Yes fans will find lots of information on every version of Yes. But like the Chris Welch book, it sometimes feels like it was pasted together from old magazine articles.

I still prefer Dan Hedges' old biography of the band. The writing is better. It has a sense of humor (humour?) and a point of view. It isn't always a flattering portrait. Rick Wakeman apparently hates the book. But it makes Yes comes across as an interesting collection of humans, rather than airbrushed "gods." That's why it was interesting to read.

If you can't find an old copy of the Hedges book, this one is a good second best.

Pretty well documented.......2002-12-14

This book, though not THE Bible for a Yes fan, is a good reference particularly for the novice who wants to know more about the pre-history of a band who helped create prog rock in the early 70s.
The reader will find it widely illustrated with tour photos, posters and pics taken from several LP booklets.
It has a huge amount of info on different albums, LPs, singles and CD releases.
A nice book for the price.

A plethora of information for the avid yes fan!.......2002-12-13

"Perpetual Change" by David Watkinson & Rick Wakeman proves to be a very handy reference guide for the avid Yes fan. The book contains a forward by Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The book features a brief history of the popular progressive band with many glossy photos some color and some black and white. There are also many examples (some in color) of Roger Dean's excellent album artwork. In addition there are a number of memorabilia items shown like tour posters, magazine covers, newspaper articles, tickets, backstage passes and tour books. A detailed section is included of Yes tour dates and support acts. Much of the early information in this section comes from Bill Bruford's diary of his tenure in the band. A list of songs played during each tour is also included. Some humerous anecdotes and exploits of the band are mentioned. The last section contains a detailed single, album, and cd discography. This section not only provides country of origin and song listings but also differences between songs (for example if the single version is shorter than the lp track). The book ends with an extensive bootleg discography. The bootleg section includes various bootleg releases and includes song listings and venues and sound quality if available. All in all this is an essential purchase for fans progressive rock legends Yes.

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Doctor Who Short Trips is a series of themed short story anthologies of new Doctor Who fiction, featuring the Doctor in all of his first eight incarnations. They feature stories written by some of the leading names in Doctor Who, past and present, including Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Christopher H. Bidmead, and Paul Magrs. Through 14 new adventures, join the Doctor on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe, from an alien world tyrannized by a god-like machine to the British retreat from Afghanistan in 1842. Discover the secrets of the TARDIS's original owner, and of three faceless creatures stranded in 21st-century Hollywood.

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From the darkest corners of your mind..........2004-11-23

Fourteen stories to freeze the blood from the following authors: John Binns (Editor), Lance Parkin, Gareth Wigmore, Trevor Baxendale, Tara Samms, Juliet E McKenna, Jeremy Daw, Alexander Leithes, Jonathan Morris, Andy Campbell, David Bailey, Marc Platt, Robert Shearman and Huw Wilkins.

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Plain old Post Office Protocol (POP) is fine for just logging in and grabbing your e-mail from a dial-up service, but more elaborate mail-management and messaging solutions require a more capable protocol. The Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) fits the bill by allowing you to pull off all sorts of mail-management tricks. With IMAP, a single user can see the same messages and folders on many computers, or multiple users (say, members of a sales team) each can integrate a common folder into individual organizational hierarchies. Managing IMAP shows how to perform these feats and many others, and presents a rigorous comparison of IMAP clients and servers.

On the server side, the book focuses on the University of Washington IMAP server--the standard implementation that IMAP inventor Mark Crispin wrote--and the feature-rich Cyrus IMAP server. The features of each are explained, in addition to how each integrates with its operating system. "Common Tasks" for each are covered, including details of precisely what system administrators have to do to establish access privileges on a mailbox, add users, set up shared folders, and so on through their respective feature sets. Most of the how-to material takes the form of "type this, get that" listings, with plenty of annotation that explains what's going on. Later sections are platform-neutral, covering security (perhaps better covered in specialized texts), spam filtering, and performance optimization. Managing IMAP has done a great job of cataloguing and commenting upon the various IMAP administration utilities that exist. --David Wall

Topics covered: The Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) and its implementation, especially in the University of Washington's IMAP server and the Cyrus IMAP server. After presenting the case for IMAP and comparing it to Post Office Protocol (POP), the book shows how to set up and administer both major IMAP servers. It also compares IMAP clients. Other topics that are covered include security, user management, and scalability. A directory of IMAP administration interfaces and an IMAP command reference round out the volume.

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Virtually everything--not just computers, but every kind of device--is coming on board the Internet, and the two principal applications are the World Wide Web and email. The POP3 model for online-only messaging is being taxed to its limit, and users clearly would like mail servers with more "oomph." More specifically, the demand is for email servers that take advantage of centralized resources to manage mail, rather than heap more tasks on end-user computers. This clamor has resulted in the IMAP protocol being incorporated into virtually every major email server on the market. Those who haven't already installed IMAP are probably planning to do so. Managing IMAP is a movable feast of IMAP help. It is a handy guide for everyday tasks common to most IMAP servers as well as a concise reference to help navigate the sometimes sparsely and obtusely documented open source software. Whether the goal is more insight into the IMAP server and client or utility software, or big-picture strategic suggestions to get off a legacy system, Managing IMAP is here to help. This book is both a conceptual and a mechanical IMAP road map. Managers, system integrators, and system administrators on the front lines of Internet messaging will find it a valuable tool for IMAP system provision, maintenance and support. It is also useful if you're considering IMAP for your messaging system. Managing IMAP covers the IMAP protocol, setting up a client, IMAP security, performance monitoring, and tools. Several chapters are devoted specifically to two of the most popular servers: the University of Washington server and Cyrus, and detailed appendixes cover topics such as TCL, procmail, Sieve, and sendmail.

Customer Reviews:

OK Book but not Excellent.......2006-05-16

I give this book a grade C. It talks about the benefits of IMAP and about the most popular IMAP servers Cyrus-Imap and WU-IMAP. It shows an intro to both these servers but it does not go into technical details. I had to go to other sources in order to find out how to setup Cyrus IMAP properly and how to troubleshoot it. I wish they had a more recent Revision like the other O'Reilly books that are kept updated. There are a lot of differences between the IMAP servers of the year 2000 and the IMAP servers in 2006. I wish there was an O'Reilly technical book on just Cyrus-IMAP and anotherone for Dovecot-IMAP (my second choice for an IMAP server). Someone needs to write a new IMAP book, please!

good practice, but not general enough.......2002-07-31

The big limitation here is that this book concentrates on a couple of open-source packages, so lots of time is spent detailing their intricacies. I would think that a more general book on IMAP4 protocol would be helpful.
But there are good examples of CGI scripts that monitor and manage mail servers, for instance, that can be adapted by the creative sysadmin to many other purposes. I also wish that there was a CD-ROM disc, or website with the source code. Typing in code from a book is a drag. The good thing is that you can modify it and make it your own as you type it in.

Does not cover the prerequisites.......2001-08-10

If you are looking to find out about the IMAP protocol - This book is very good, I bought it to help me install the Cyrus imap server. The book covers the installation of cyrus but it does not cover the prerequisites. I found the hardest part of setting up the Cyrus server was dealing with the software prerequisites, i.e. tcl and cyrus sasl. If you are interested in learning about the IMAP protocol, this is the book, if you are interested in setting up Cyrus - save your money.

IMAP is the future of Internet e-mail access..........2001-04-19

Anyone can set up a POP3 server. Setting up an IMAP server is rather more difficult, especially if you want it to scale to handle more than just a few thousand users.

If you are administering "modern" Internet e-mail servers, then this book is a vital component of your bookshelf.

Long awaited book.......2000-12-24

Just like the authors of this book, I was also very surprised why there isnt already a book on this subject. IMAP is spreading especially in webmail, enterprise and scalable systems.

The book covers excellently the two major IMAP opensource servers UW IMAP and Cyrus IMAP servers.

The book also touches subjects, as remote filtering, and remote configuration storage.

Although the book leaves the usage of LDAP as a remote configuration option mentioned but untouched.

The boot also talks about well known IMAP clients on Unix, Linux, MAC and Windowns platform such as (PINE, Eudora, Netscape Messanger etc).

The book also talks about web-based email systems such as IMP, WING etc.

One thing that I disliked about the book and for which reason it will not be get a room in my library and looses one star is that all screenshots of webbased mail systems are taken in MS Internet Explorer.

Uh? I thought it was one of the BLUE books of Oreilly not a RED one.

Perhaps the authors of this UNIX based book believe that a web-based email client consists of two parts: 1. A server side gateway such as IMP, WING 2. Microsoft Internet Explorer

Also, on page 69 the book states "Internet Explorer and OE are available for Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh, and Unix". I dont think that its correct. I use a Unix system (IRIX), and I cannot seem to find one version for IRIX. Isnt IRIX Unix?

Other than that , its a fine book that should be in your library unless you run a MS free house like mine.

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