Comprehensive PHP PEAR::DB [Paperback]

Blake Schwendiman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 19, 2003

PEAR is about code reuse. That's the primary motivation for this book. If you're a PHP programmer and you've developed any database projects, PEAR::DB is for you. Over the lifetime of PHP there have been several great database abstractions developed, some OO, some not. PEAR::DB is the standard object oriented database abstraction. As PHP continues to evolve and grow in its user base, more and more developers will be hired to maintain and modify existing code. By standardizing on PEAR, maintenance and upgrades will focus on business-specific code and not general-purpose code such as database access. In-depth coverage of: 1. Installing and configuring PEAR and PEAR::DB on Windows and Linux. 2. Using PEAR::DB to access multiple database back ends including MySQL(R), PostgreSQL, Microsoft (R) SQL Server, SQLite and others. 3. Much more...

Product Details

• Paperback: 169 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (December 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411603613
• ISBN-13: 978-1411603615
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,084,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The best place to find out about me is at my blog (www.blakeschwendiman.com). I'm a published technical writer and an aspiring fiction writer.

My primary interests are movies, movies and movies. I also like food.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good way to get up to speed quickly with PEAR::DB, August 13, 2004

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Michael Kelly (San Diego, California United States) - See all my reviews
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If you need to get going with PEAR::DB quickly this is a great way to do it. It's a short book, but gets right to the point. You are expected to know PHP and how to program. So there is no hand holding. The structure is: you are given a code snippet on how to do it and a brief explanation. It just gets right down to brass tacks explaining PEAR::DB. The explanation (which includes basic install instructions) extends for the first 29 pages. After that its just function explanations.

The caveat to all this is that it is a great concise book if you need to learn PEAR::DB quickly, ie it is going to be used on the project I am working on right now which is due yesterday. If however, you have plenty of time and just want to learn PEAR::DB the cost is probably too high and you are better off learning from tutorials and other info on the web.

3.0 out of 5 stars Never Enough, November 3, 2010

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G. Lomb "gp-lomb productions" (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews
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This is the second book on this topic I have ordered. I have been in search of a "beginning" book that will bridge the gap between the scripts and the implementation thereof. Steps A - B have been more like steps D, J - L, then Q. Fragmented at best. Hopefully, someday, someone will produce a book for someone like me, who admittedly needs to be hand held and walked through this topic.