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PHP & MySQL Books...

Hi,

Are there any PHP & MySQL Book(s) that cover the following topics?

- Includes a beginners guide to PHP & MySQL
- MySQL Databases, creation & integration with PHP
- Creating a PHP & MySQL Driven Website Backend
- User Sessions utilizing both PHP & MySQL (Including information about cookies etc.)
- Making Scripts Secure
- Making a completely user customizable website (e.g. the User can change colour settings, move objects around, have personalised home page, add own rss feeds etc.)
- More In-Depth/Specific uses for PHP (i.e. creating a comments system, creating a online content creation system etc.)

Most likely, all of that isn't in one book, but I'd basically want any books that cover all of that. Just the titles, so I can get em and start learning. I would be very greatful.. Thanks in Advance to anyone who can help!

Cheers,

// Xeijin

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Well, if you want a book, try Sams each Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache.

Last edited by theTrinity, August 29th, 2005 01:19 AM (Edited 1 times)

Pretty much anything by Sams Publishing. They're the best. Look through their books and find what interests you.

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PHP and MySQL for dynamic websites - By Larry Ullman.

It's the best you're gonna get! :)

I'm going to second the Larry Ullman book, that's the one that got me going better than any other. I've still got it and use it sometimes if I need to check a certain thing.

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So will any of these books have info on letting the user customize the interface, and add their own features? (e.g. RSS Feeeds.) Thanks guys.

//Xeijin

Some of the Sams books have in-depth, like tutorials, that teach you how to make stuff like an address book, a small discussion forum, ect.

I would differently recommend Larry Ulman's PHP and MYSQL for dynamic sites, started me of pretty good.

Originally posted by xeijin:

So will any of these books have info on letting the user customize the interface, and add their own features? (e.g. RSS Feeeds.) Thanks guys.

//Xeijin

I think you should just use the book to get acquainted with the language. It's much better to write scripts yourself because when you are copy pasting you are not really learning anything.

By the way, you can save some money and skip the book if you want :) I learned from this Webmonkey tutorial to get ahold of basic programming concepts. Then you can let PHP.net guide you up to black belt status.