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Searching for a good PHP & MySQL book (Part 3)
Posted on 07-Dec-2006
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So I think I've finally found a good introductory book to read and keep on my bookshelf: PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (Powers, Friends of Ed 2006). As the title implies, this book focuses primarily on PHP. However, the author does provide an introduction to MySQL and even a ...
Searching for a good PHP & MySQL book (Part 2)
Posted on 18-Nov-2006
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Continuing from the initial post on my search for a good PHP and MySQL book. As of this writing, though, I'm still a-searchin'... :-\ [...]
Searching for a good PHP & MySQL book (Part 1)
Posted on 10-Nov-2006
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So far I've been more or less disappointed with the PHP and MySQL books I've glanced through. I try to read at least a few dozen pages in each to get an idea of the writing style and coverage. Perhaps it might be best to get separate books on PHP ...
MAMP: Macintosh, Apache, MySQL & PHP
Posted on 05-Nov-2006
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Through Michael Doig's excellent tutorial, I recently discovered MAMP, a free package which provides recent builds of Apache, MySQL and PHP as a standalone installation on Mac. It's geared towards local server development on a machine, as opposed to live sites, so it's great for testing out stuff like WordPress ...