Learning MySQL

Resources

There are many excellent resources available for you to learn more about PHP, its libraries, web servers, and building web database applications. We have listed several of these resources at the end of the previous two chapters. You might find the following additional resources helpful:

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

• A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0 by W. Jason Gilmore (Apress)

• PHP Black Book by Peter Moulding (The Coriolis Group)

• PHP Functions Essential Reference by Zak Greant et al. (Sams)

• PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson (Sams)

• Professional PHP4 Programming by Deepak Thomas et al. (Wrox Press)

• PHP Developer’s Cookbook by Sterling Hughes and Andrei Zmievski (Sams)

There are also many useful web sites that include tutorials, sample code, online discussion forums, and links to sample PHP applications. The official PHP site has an excellent manual at http://www.php.net/manual, and the links page at http://www.php.net/links.php points to many of these sites, including:

• http://www.phpbuilder.com

• http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP

• http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP

• http://php.resourceindex.com