Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)
by W. Jason Gilmore, Robert H. Treat
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Author: Robert H. Treat, W. Jason GilmoreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-27
ISBN: 1590595475
Number of pages: 896
Publisher: Apress
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Book Reviews of Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)
Book Review: VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Are you a professional or novice to PHP and PostgreSQL 8? If you are, then this book is definitely for you. Authors W. Jason Gilmore and Robert H. Treat, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that offers users an impressive platform for building high-powered Web applications.
Gilmore and Treat, begin by acquainting you with the basics of PHP offering insight into its roots, popularity, and users. Then, the authors show you how to install and configure PHP, as well as, the Apache Web server. Next, they cover the various aspects from the basics of the PHP language and class libraries to topics like authentication, security, session handlers and e-mail functionality. The authors also focus on PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR). They continue by addressing PostgreSQL, including tables and data types, views, functions, indexes and triggers. Then, the authors present the more pertinent PHP functionality to access PostgreSQL. Next, they show you how to install and configure your local test bed. The authors continue by describing the server strain that PG can handle. Then, they show you how to use Smarty and PearDB. Next, the authors also cover the integration between PostgreSQL and PHP; the interface with PostgreSQL from PHP; and how to write reusable queries. Finally, the authors go further by covering the installation and configuration of PostgreSQL.
This most excellent book is not for beginners. Nevertheless, you will find plenty of tips and notes focusing shortcuts to complete both new and familiar tasks.
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I think this is a great book for beginners especially those curious about PostgreSQL.
- Joe Topjian, Adminspotting.net
Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. Youll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.
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