"Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono's commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you 'hide behind the couch.'"
-From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL

Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!

Suddenly, it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you’ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications—all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.

Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you’ll need to build virtually any application. You’ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

Working from complete examples on the CD-ROM, you’ll create

• Generic dynamic Web sites
• Blogs
• Discussion forums
• Shopping carts
• Auction sites
• Calendars
• FAQ systems
• Reusable components
• Content management systems
• News sites

JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntu’s sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an O’Reilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co-founder of LUGRadio—a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.

CD-ROM Includes

• XAMPP for Linux: easy-to-install, preconfigured Apache distributions containing MySQL, PHP, Perl, and more
• Source code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the book
• A remastered Ubuntu live CD, set to run all eight applications live

System Requirements

• CPU: Pentium III, 650 MHz. RAM: 256MB (recommended 512MB).
• Hard disk: No space required to run live CD; 250MB of space needed to put XAMPP server and projects on installed system.

Jono Bacon works for Canonical as the Ubuntu community manager and is an established speaker, author, and regular contributor to the Open Source community. As an author, Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and the Official Ubuntu Book, and has written more than 400 published articles in more than 14 publications. Bacon has also contributed as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus, and is an O’Reilly Network weblog author.

In addition, Bacon is a regular contributor to Open Source in a range of projects, a lead developer on the Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project, and one of the co-founders of the popular LUGRadio (www.lugradio.org) podcast–a show with more than 15,000 listeners and an annual event that pulls visitors from around the world.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I would give this -ZERO- stars if I could. The demos in the book are pretty good. They are simple and basic but they are more than the useless examples you get in most programming books. That is the bait, but the promises made on the cover are not kept. Stay away from this book. The problem is that this book pretends to offer you the programs to examine, use, modify, and copy. It is a big problem for the simple reason that you must boot from the CD and know quite a bit about Linux to find and get the programs. When I went to the author's website it is crawling with bugs virus and my browser immediately died and had problem ... from a new install freshly updated WinXP. This author is a rip-off and a liar as far as I can see. If he was honest he would have a clean web page with a pointer to the programs that did not play games for serious users to load and play with. DO NOT BUY THIS CRAPPY BOOK! AND THE ATTITUDE OF THE AUTHOR IS BAD SO I WOULD NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM HIM AGAIN. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)