On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Ray Iftikhar wrote:
> I was looking for a good book that teaches you how to use PHP (mainly 3)
> with MySql. I went to Amazon.com and found "MySql" by Paul Dubois, which was
> supposed to be THE book for mySql programming. However, after reading some
> of the customer reviews, it said that it was "light" in the PHP section.
I don't think that any book can teach you both MySQL and PHP thoroughly.
I would guess that if you know C and/or Perl than you should not have
any trouble learning PHP.
> Also the fact that the book was published in 1999 made me a little uneasy.
> What are some books that you have used to learn MySql with php?
I found a review at amazon.com which said that the book by DuBois
covers the development release of MySQL 3.23 which is quite amazing
in spite of the fact that Red Hat Linux 6.2 which was the latest
release of Red Hat until last summer had an associated powertools
6.2 bundle with MySQL version only 3.20. The reviewer seemed to
imply that a lot of MySQL 3.23 are included in the book.
Here are some other things said about DuBois' book and MySQL:
- Very well organized and pleasant to read.
- The last chapter on Administration be read first.
- Examples found in the book and errata should be posted on a web site.
- The book is slightly better and more up to date than the O'Reilly book.
- Has chapters on both Perl DBI and PHP although my feeling is that there
is more on Perl DBI than on PHP. Covers PHP3 but not PHP4 but that is
probably not that much of a big deal when you are learning the basics.
- While this book covers MySQL it does not cover every aspect of SQL
such as Transact-SQL and more advanced SQL constructs not available
in MySQL but MySQL is still good for intermediate-scale databases
and runs on a variety of operating systems, is more powerful than
MSQL (Mini-SQL), and is supported by lots of database applications.
The authoritative guides to SQL see http://webstore.ansi.org/and do
a search but keep in mind that these unreasonably priced documents
are for experts only. For instance, ISO/IEC 9075:1992
Information technology - Database languages - SQL
is currently priced at US$235.00. I think this is the
latest standard for SQL (Structured Query Language).
A list of PHP books can be found at http://www.php.net/books.php
Bye,
Neil
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