Apache, MySQL, and PHP Weekend Crash Course (Paperback)

~ (Author) "This book shows you how to knit together Web server, database server, and scripting technologies..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

The book is well supported by a companion website& -- British Journal of Healthcare and Information Management, April 2004

“The book is well supported by a companion website…” (British Journal of Healthcare and Information Management, April 2004)

Product Description

Get up to speed on Apache, MySQL, and PHP – in a weekend!

The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Apache Web server, MySQL database, and PHP scripting. The problem is, you're not really up to speed. Maybe it's been a while since you installed all three of these technologies. Perhaps you've never used Apache, MySQL, and PHP together. Or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we've got a solution for you – Apache, MySQL, and PHP Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you'll be able to dive right in and begin building dynamic, data-driven sites on either Windows® or Linux® with all three integrated technologies.

The Curriculum

Friday
Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours

• Installing Apache
• Installing PHP
• Installing MySQL
• Apache Basics

Saturday
Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours

• Configuring Apache
• Apache Security Concerns
• The Basics of MySQL
• MySQL Security
• Working with Data
• Queries

Afternoon: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours

• Troubleshooting MySQL Commands and Queries
• Advanced MySQL Concepts
• PHP Basics
• Program Flow
• PHP Functions

Saturday, cont.
Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours

• Working with Files
• HTML Constructs
• Working with Forms
• Multiple-User Considerations in PHP

Sunday
Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours

• Good Coding Practices
• Debugging and Troubleshooting PHP
• MySQL Through PHP
• Debugging and Troubleshooting MySQL in PHP
• Odds and Ends
• Project: Calendar I

Afternoon: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours

• Project: Calendar II
• Project: Content Publishing I
• Project: Content Publishing II
• Project: Building an RSS Feed

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764543202
• ISBN-13: 978-0764543203
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,095,385 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, examples worked great on Windows, May 1, 2004

By A Customer

I had no problems following any of the author's steps in the book for Windows and I'm sure anyone who's competent with Windows can do the same. I didn't actually spend a whole weekend with the book as the title suggests, but each lesson takes about the amount of time prescribed and getting through the book in several evenings over the course of a week or two is pretty easy. be sure of course to get the right versions of MySQL, Apache, and PHP. The combination of the 3 can lead to problems if you don't use the exact versions with all the right patches applied as the author suggests. I had tinkered with IIS some in the past but never before had I done anything more complicated than HTML web pages. From the examples in this book, I was able to set up my own web site with a database.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, December 13, 2006

By	[e-mail] "Hank" (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews

Today: December 13th, 2006.
This 2004 book is great....for older versions of PHP and mySQL. It took me a long time to figure out how to install PHP correctly...and the mySQL screenshots and setup instructions are outdated too.

If this book were up to date with the current versions of the software, I'd be giving it a rave review and 5 stars.

The current versions of the software are:
Apache 2.2.3
PHP 5.2.0
mySQL 5.0.27

I had no problem installing Apache & running it (this is on Windows, btw). However, the others took some web searches to figure out.
If you do intend to buy this book, here are 2 revisions:
Page 26: you can skip step 2.
Page 28: LoadModule php5_module c:\php\php5apache2_2.dll

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Go Elsewhere!!!, December 11, 2003

By	P. Mantheiy "joe.man" (Covington, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really bought this book for the calendar project at the end of the book. But I was absolutely apalled at what the publisher claims to be "focused sessions". If you need to learn mySQL and PHP look at Anny Harris' "PHP/MySQL Programming for the absolute beginner."

I am an ASP programmer looking to break away from the hold microsoft has over everyone. But you couldn't learn PHP with this book if your life depended on it. And if you need to learn Apache, I don't know what to suggest. But don't buy this book.

The publisher would be doing the world a great service by either removing this book from the market or actually make the format of the book into something instructive.