RE: [PHP-DB] Book recommendation for using MySQL w. PHP
Rene, I've gotten a lot of mileage lately out of 'The PHP Anthology, Volumes I and II' by Harry Fuecks and published by SitePoint. The author demonstrates IMO fairly sophisticated usage of OOP techniques in constructing classes for MySQL, in particular. And the coding examples are robust and explained really well. As to using MySQL and building queries, Paul DuBois' MySQL, Second Edition has stood the test of time for me as a basic and advanced reference. dave
RE: [PHP-DB] Book recommendation for using MySQL w. PHP
Thanks Rich I'm aware of that problem, but without getting my hands on the book it's a little hard to see if it covers my needs. It's the same with my PHP books ... everyone told me to get Sterling Hughes' "PHP Developer's Cookbook", but beyond the chapter on constructing and using objects, and a little bit in the regular expressions part, I've not really had any use of that book at all - it simply does not cover the kinda stuff I work with... It was cheap enough though, so I'm not complaining, but alot of the things it covers aren't done deep enough for my needs. I'm sure there are others that could find more use of it, but for me it's limited... Undoubtfully the same with books on other parts of the coding ... most my C++ books are pretty useless, same with the ones on alot of other things. The computing books market seems to be filled with more crummy books than good ones Rene At 13:56 04-11-2004, Hutchins, Richard wrote: Rene, My _opinion_ only here, but I own the Welling and Thompson book and used it when I was starting out with PHP and MySQL but don't use it much anymore. I have found much better information and practical advice in the MySQL manual and in the MySQL forums. I'm not ragging on the W & T book by any means; it was a good book for beginning and intermediate needs. But you may find it deficient when looking for advanced, bleeding edge stuff. And one man's "advanced" may be another man's "intermediate" so take that into consideration too. Unfortunately, I don't have any specific recommendations for an advanced MySQL book, but I would strongly suggest you investigate other books in addition to the Welling and Thompson book. Please let us know what you (or your girlfriend) end up buying since I'm sure there are others that are facing the same decision. Rich -- Rene Brehmer aka Metalbunny If your life was a dream, would you wake up from a nightmare, dripping of sweat, hoping it was over? Or would you wake up happy and pleased, ready to take on the day with a smile? http://metalbunny.net/ References, tools, and other useful stuff... Check out the new Metalbunny forums at http://forums.metalbunny.net/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] Book recommendation for using MySQL w. PHP
Rene,
My _opinion_ only here, but I own the Welling and Thompson book and used it
when I was starting out with PHP and MySQL but don't use it much anymore. I
have found much better information and practical advice in the MySQL manual
and in the MySQL forums. I'm not ragging on the W & T book by any means; it
was a good book for beginning and intermediate needs. But you may find it
deficient when looking for advanced, bleeding edge stuff. And one man's
"advanced" may be another man's "intermediate" so take that into
consideration too. Unfortunately, I don't have any specific recommendations
for an advanced MySQL book, but I would strongly suggest you investigate
other books in addition to the Welling and Thompson book.
Please let us know what you (or your girlfriend) end up buying since I'm
sure there are others that are facing the same decision.
Rich
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Thanks ... the reviews for that one are pretty promising :p
Rene
At 04:37 04-11-2004, David Orlovich wrote:
>I'd recommend Welling and Thomson PHP and MySQL Web Development. It's
>nice and thick and a new (3rd) edition has just come out.
>David.
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Re: [PHP-DB] Book recommendation for using MySQL w. PHP
Thanks ... the reviews for that one are pretty promising :p Rene At 04:37 04-11-2004, David Orlovich wrote: I'd recommend Welling and Thomson PHP and MySQL Web Development. It's nice and thick and a new (3rd) edition has just come out. David. -- Rene Brehmer aka Metalbunny If your life was a dream, would you wake up from a nightmare, dripping of sweat, hoping it was over? Or would you wake up happy and pleased, ready to take on the day with a smile? http://metalbunny.net/ References, tools, and other useful stuff... Check out the new Metalbunny forums at http://forums.metalbunny.net/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] Book recommendation for using MySQL w. PHP
hi gang Any recommendations for a book that goes into depth with the SQL language and specifically MySQL's variant, and especially using that with PHP I don't need a beginner's guide, cuz I've gotten far beyond that on my own, but I need some help at figuring out the more complex possibilities, and how to put them into practical use, with both the PHP commands and the SQL language itself. I'm primarily using MySQL, and want to learn that properly, before I start moving on to PostGres and the others... Any recommendation would be beneficial, thanks alot in advanced :). Christmas is coming up, and my girl wants to know what to give me ... heh :P Rene -- Rene Brehmer aka Metalbunny If your life was a dream, would you wake up from a nightmare, dripping of sweat, hoping it was over? Or would you wake up happy and pleased, ready to take on the day with a smile? http://metalbunny.net/ References, tools, and other useful stuff... Check out the new Metalbunny forums at http://forums.metalbunny.net/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Book recommendation for using MySQL w. PHP
I'd recommend Welling and Thomson PHP and MySQL Web Development. It's
nice and thick and a new (3rd) edition has just come out.
David.
On 4/11/2004, at 4:22 PM, -{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote:
hi gang
Any recommendations for a book that goes into depth with the SQL
language and specifically MySQL's variant, and especially using that
with PHP
I don't need a beginner's guide, cuz I've gotten far beyond that on my
own, but I need some help at figuring out the more complex
possibilities, and how to put them into practical use, with both the
PHP commands and the SQL language itself.
I'm primarily using MySQL, and want to learn that properly, before I
start moving on to PostGres and the others...
Any recommendation would be beneficial, thanks alot in advanced :).
Christmas is coming up, and my girl wants to know what to give me ...
heh :P
Rene
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