Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL

Although I worked with PHP and MySQL quite a bit, I never picked up a book about either before. I felt it was interesting to see if there were some obvious omissions in my knowledge on this area.

The book doesn’t apply any fancy metamodel, wrapper library or templating substitution in its examples. I like that, since it shows the basics of building web applications without getting entangled with intricacies of libraries that are probably irrelevant to most people most of the time.

If you have experience programming, but are new to web applications, PHP or MySQL, then this book will get you up to speed.