Learning MySQL

Resources

To learn more about the origins of LAMP, and related technologies, visit the http://www.onlamp.com web site run by O’Reilly Media.

To learn more about PHP and PHP programming, we recommend the following books:

• Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar (O’Reilly). This is an excellent introductory book.

• Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf et al. (O’Reilly). A reference-style book that covers the core libraries.

• PHP Pocket Reference by Rasmus Lerdorf (O’Reilly).

• PHP Cookbook by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg (O’Reilly). This contains solutions to tricky PHP problems.

• PHP Essentials by Julie Meloni (Premier Press). A good introductory book covering programming basics.

Other books are listed on the http://www.php.net/books.php web page.

To learn more about Apache, we recommend:

• The Apache web site (http://httpd.apache.org).

• Apache: The Definitive Guide by Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie (O’Reilly). This really is the definitive guide to Apache configuration.

• Apache Cookbook by Ken Coar and Rich Bowen (O’Reilly). Solutions to problems with Apache.

To learn more about building web database applications that use PHP, Apache, and MySQL, read Hugh’s other book:

• Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane (O’Reilly).

You might also find it interesting to learn about the relatively new Ajax programming paradigm, which relies heavily on client-side processing: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX)

To learn more about client-side programming with JavaScript, see:

• The W3Schools ...