PHP Essentials (Linux Series): Amazon.de: Julie C. Meloni: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 384 Seiten
Verlag: Prima Tech; Auflage: annotated edition (M�rz 2000)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 076152729X
ISBN-13: 978-0761527299
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,2 x 18,8 x 2,1 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (17 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.157.946 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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PHP is getting lots of attention as an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, not least because it runs on Linux and other Unix-like systems as well as on Windows. It is a server-side parsing engine that lets you put dynamic content such as online databases on your Web site. The beauty of server-side processing is that any browser can view the results, provided of course that you are careful with your Web page authoring.

There are not many PHP titles available so this one is particularly welcome. The author is an enthusiast for PHP and uses it professionally. Her aim is to provide a hands-on guide to installing and using PHP, for those who have no previous knowledge of the product. It is based on version 3.0, but also covers new features in PHP 4.0. You are expected to have a basic knowledge of HTML. Although databases such as SQL Server and Oracle are briefly covered, there is a special focus on using PHP with MySQL, an excellent open-source database server. This is a common partnership, so the focus is appropriate.

After tackling installation and basic PHP scripts, the book gets straight down to the business of linking with a database. There is a short introduction to SQL, and a complete example of how to create and query a database table. Further chapters cover user authentication, session management with cookies, and Web-based database administration. Finally there is a complete e-commerce example, with code both printed and available from a supporting Web site. An appendix offers a PHP language reference.

This is a book that teaches by example. It is manageable in size and has a friendly real-world feel. It is not the last word on the subject, and is best suited to PHP newcomers or those using rival technology who want an idea of what PHP can do. --Tim Anderson

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PHP is getting lots of attention as an open-source alternative to Microsoft Active Server Pages, not least because it runs on Linux and other Unix-like systems as well as on Windows. It is a server-side parsing engine that lets you put dynamic content such as online databases on your Web site. The beauty of server-side processing is that any browser can view the results, provided of course that you are careful with your Web-page authoring.

Few books on PHP are available, so PHP Essentials is particularly welcome. The author is a PHP enthusiast and also uses it professionally. Her aim is to provide a hands-on guide to installing and using PHP for those who have no previous knowledge of the product. The book's based on version 3 but covers new PHP 4 features too. Readers are expected to have a basic knowledge of HTML, though. Although databases such as SQL Server and Oracle are briefly discussed, there is a special focus on using PHP with MySQL, an excellent open-source database server. (This is a common partnership, so the focus is appropriate.)

After tackling installation and basic PHP scripts, the book gets straight to the business of linking with a database. The text includes a short introduction to SQL and a complete example of how to create and query a database table. Further chapters cover user authentication, session management with cookies, and Web-based database administration. Finally, a complete e-commerce example in included, with code both printed in the book and available from a supporting Web site. An appendix offers a PHP language reference.

This book teaches by example. It is manageable in size and has a friendly, real-world feel. It is not the last word on the subject, though, so it's best suited to PHP newcomers or those using rival technology who want an idea of what PHP can do. --Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk

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Great book! Very usefull for newbies 28. Dezember 2000

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It's a great book for starting php programming without programming experience. From the first step on you're confronted with easy to unterstand examples. With this book I started programming a small DB app within two days

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Pretty good for beginners 30. Juli 2000

Von Anthony Boyd

I read the reviews of the Professional PHP Programming book, and noted a lot of people said there were typos in that book, even though it was very good otherwise. As a PHP novice, I cannot afford to muddle through a typo-ridden book. So I looked at Web Applications With PHP 4, and that book was so advanced that the *first* chapter is titled "Advanced PHP" -- no install guide or anything else.

This book, PHP Essentials, is geared toward not only PHP newbies, but also people who have never programmed anything in any language. That's a little bit basic even for me, as I do at least know Perl and JavaScript. But it looked better that the first two books I tried, so I bought it.

I don't regret buying it. It is written in such a simple, friendly manner, that I was able to breeze through the first half in about an hour. If you're good at HTML, and you're looking to get into programming, this may be just what you need. This book will teach you, in basic terms, how to create if-else statements, what the proper syntax is for PHP code, how it integrates into the HTML page, what variables are, how to capture form data and write it to a file or database, how to send email from a Web page, how to send HTTP headers (so you can set cookies and do redirects), and it will step you through building a shopping cart system.

Now, if that were it, this book would be a five star book. However, being that I do have some programming background, and did have some idea of what PHP could do, let me tell you why I gave it four stars instead of five. First, there are some technical inaccuracies, such as the statement that Netscape 3+ supports style sheets (Netscape 3 has zero support, it's only Netscape 4+). But that's not bad. Second, nowhere does she address the "gasp, mixing HTML and code" programming debate. And finally, as another reviewer said, this book really is just the essentials, and I think it's not even that. Because there is a whopping omission: how to create a file that pulls in other files, like Server Side Includes. While the book covers how to open a file and read/write to it, the book never goes into detail about just linking in a file. This is important, because it's a fundamental feature. In fact, PHP has two commands for doing it, and neither one is mentioned, not even in the commands listed in the appendix.

So, if you're new to PHP and new to programming in general, this is a good -- great -- introductory book. You could learn the basics of programming with this book, and put yourself into a better paying job! But if you have some programming background, or even some PHP background, this book isn't going to feel very thorough.

Missing important points 28. Juli 2000

Von Samuel Vetsch

As a PHP newbie, but professional C++/Java/EJB programmer, I was really disappointed by this book mainly because it complitely ommits the Object Oriented (OO) aspects of PHP as well as common code reusability principles which are very important when building dynamic web sites. If you look for a reference for accessing particular aspects of PHP such as sessions, database access and so on, this book is for you, but if you want to go beyond and planning to use PHP professionally, you should buy another book.