Re: PHP and MySQL

[Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net>]

Joe Tosetti wrote:
> Does anyone have any recommendations for books and or web sites to
> learn PHP and MySQL.  I have some experience with MySQL and no
> experience with PHP.  I'd like to create a site to enter inventory
> data into a database and generate reports with it.

"Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL"
by Kevin Yank

<http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phpmysql1/>

I bought the above book a year or so back when I was learning the 
basics of PHP and MySQL at the same time. I found that once I had read 
through it and worked through some of the examples that I knew enough 
to find the other things I needed in the online PHP and MySQL 
documentation.

The web site offers sample chapters so you can get a feel for the 
writing style before you purchase. There are articles and some 
tutorial material on the site as well.

I've found PHP to be a pretty capable scripting language for the web 
site and stand alone command line tasks. Having said that I should say 
I've never looked into Perl which has a huge following and many 
examples of fine script applications.

-- 
Tim

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