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Practical PHP and MySQL: (Negus Live Linux Series)
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I recently reviewed the book that launched Prentice Hall's Negus Live Linux Series for Linux Magazine. Live Linux CDs is an excellent introduction to the wide variety of ways Linux Live CDs can be used (they're not just for Windows users to 'test drive' Linux anymore). I was curious however to see what a series of books based on live CDs would look like. Enter 'Practical PHP and MySQL'. Jono Bacon (co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book and Linux Desktop Hacks) has taken an interesting approach in writing this book. The premise is to use a Linux live CD to teach the readers how to build eight specific web applications. How he does this is unique.
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The vast majority of this book must be used with the accompanying CD. The CD contains a modified live version of Ubuntu 6.06 which includes XAMPP. XAMPP provides a 'complete PHP, Apache, MySQL Web development environment'. The CD also includes all of the code and other data required to build the eight projects outlined in the book (Blogs, Discussion Forums, Shopping Carts, and so on). The interesting thing is that you don't even take the CD out of the cardboard wallet until Chapter 3.
Chapter 1 is literally a beginner's introduction to PHP, MySQL, and dynamic web design. The chapter is brief at only 9 pages so don't expect to learn a great deal about these concepts. The chapter seems to exist just to give the reader a bit of a taste of the subject matter before moving on. Full Story |
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