Wandschneider: Core Web Apps Dev _1 [With CDROM]

By Marc Wandschneider

Book Overview

An end-to-end guide to building industrial-strength web applications: includes PHP/MySQL source code to three complete web applications. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131867164
• ISBN13: 9780131867161
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 858 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Learn to use this combination for great web applications

Divided into five sections this book attempts to cover pretty much everything you need to know to develop web based applications with PHP and MySQL. Part one goes over the basics of PHP including data types, variables, functions, object-oriented programming, arrays, and forms. The second part the looks at databases including designing, creating, and using a database. It includes a very good section on the basics of database...

Developing applications instead of standalone pages...

I had a blog reader email me today and ask if I knew of any good books on PHP and MySQL. Being that I'd like to learn more about both of those subjects myself, I recently had requested (and had sitting in my review pile) a copy of Core Web Application Development With PHP And MySQL by Mark Wandschneider. If you're focused on *application development* (rather than just learning how to create a dynamic page), then this book...

I bought this one as my first choice

As a beginner seeking to develop as much beginning-to-intermediate knowledge and information about PHP and MySQL as possible in the coming two months, I went to local book stores to see all the titles offered on these two topics -- and to select the best. "Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL" by Marc Wandschneider was the book I bought. -- [Jump down to later portions of this review if you don't want to read...

comprehensive server side discussion

The reason for the book's length is that the author is attempting to cover a lot of ground. There are comprehensive and separate descriptions of PHP and MySQL. Keep in mind that each has multiple books devoted to it. The PHP section has a good emphasis on object oriented coding. This can be vital if you have a large PHP code body, for using OO helps code scale to larger sizes. The MySQL section of the text is also nontrivial...

Much more than another PHP reference book

This book just arrived today and it is amazing. Not only is it a complete guide to PHP and MySQL, but it's written in such a clear way that someone who has never programmed before, could write a mature and robust web application, using this book. I have read a lot of technical books and this one is top notch. The code snippets and diagrams are first rate. Marc writes in a clear conversational style, with a great sense...