EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith. Just as architects need to understand building materials and their properties, Web designers need to understand the code that serves as the foundation of their sites. Wyke-Smith ensures they do by teaching designers that all dynamic Web sites consist of essentially three components: a browser interface, Web server middleware, and a database. The guide covers everything from Web coding concepts and principles to building sites, designing visual interfaces, developing databases, developing middleware, ensuring a good user experience (through good code!), testing and debugging, and more.
Create dynamic Web sites that provide real-time responses to user inputs
Understand the basic structures of all coding languages, such as variables, functions, conditionals, loops, and objects
Use the power of PHP to program the business rules of your site
Learn techniques for validating forms to reject erroneous or malicious data
Import and export data from other applications via at les
Build and query database tables using SQL to manage the data generated by your site’s activity
Develop a simple content management system
Develop a password-protected members-only area of your Web site
Build a template-based Web site with dynamic navigation
Publisher:
New Riders Press
Author:
Charles Wyke-Smith
Release Date: 2006-11-20
ISBN/EAN: 0321429192 / 9780321429193
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Average Rating: 5.0
Number of
Reviews: 11
Excellent intro to PHP & MySql
Rating:
This book provides a fantastically easy intro to a difficult subject for a beginner. The real world example of using PHP for form field validation is great for teaching the concepts involving variables, arrays, loops & general expressions. The author also answers emails if you have a problem. I highly recommend this guy! His other book "Stylin..." is also great!!!
Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-09-16
Best Yet--Hands Down!
Rating:
I have heaps of these books and I wish I'd bought this one first. Others are always pinching it off my desk as well--I keep telling the boss to buy copies for everyone. I'll need a new copy soon :)
Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-07-24
Codin' for the Web review
Rating:
Codin' was a good introductory if you already have a solid background in computers (OS, File Systems, file types etc...) and at least an intermediate understanding of html (although to the author's credit he offers some bonus material on html if you don't). It really works well if you are an advanced html person with at least some web design experience but want to dive into scripting and creating interactive websites. He does a good job of introducing php as a language and showing some simple techniques to get you up and running quickly, especially with forms. Not a book for advanced php developers and there is really no javascript which I think would be an important component to show how the two languages can be used in conjunction. Also maybe some explanation as to when php is appropriate vs. say a full OOL (object oriented language) like java or where it might make sense to use javascript instead of php to handle front end stuff. Overall it is a good book. I thought the author could have done a better job of explaining in the form chapter how the form fields can be input into a database but he stopped after explaining the input into a flat file which most people I have found wouldn't find all that useful since a db is the way to go in most instances. He goes into the db in the next chapter and sort of leaves you hangin with the previous form explanations. He circles back around and explains in later chapters but it was a little confusing because you had to infer some stuff to make the connection. Overall I recommend the book though and I have a Master's degree in IT and am very familiar with html, css, and SQL, and now a decent foundation in php.
BTW, I found the code examples offered on his site very useful and helped me get past some of the stuff that I had to infer.
Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-02-27
Great Coding Book
Rating:
I've spent a lot of time looking for a resource I could use to teach myself php. The biggest problem I've ran into is the book/website either being 1) over my head, or 2) unbearable to read.
Luckily this item was neither of the above. Though I haven't made it though the entire book yet I have found this to be -extremely- helpful and well written. I don't come from a coding background at all so I had to find something that really started from the ground up. I found this to be easily understandable to someone who doesn't get coding. Additionally his website has two extra beginning chapters if you really need to go over the basics (which I did for the coding part).
The language is clear and concise and not confusing or dull. So I would highly, highly recommend this title to anyone from a design background looking to expand their talents. So far it's one of the best I've found.I will definitely look at this other books, the next time I'm in the market for another computer book.
Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2007-12-08
Great
Rating:
I really think this is a great book for beginners in the php/coding area, It's very clear and with a clean and good practice in mind. As for me is not that useful because of my previous php knowledge, but it's a good point of reference for those familiar with php also. Overall... great book, great explanations.
Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2007-09-25
Excellent intro to PHP & MySql
Rating:
This book provides a fantastically easy intro to a difficult subject for a beginner. The real world example of using PHP for form field validation is great for teaching the concepts involving variables, arrays, loops & general expressions. The author also answers emails if you have a problem. I highly recommend this guy! His other book "Stylin..." is also great!!!
Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-09-16
Best Yet--Hands Down!
Rating:
I have heaps of these books and I wish I'd bought this one first. Others are always pinching it off my desk as well--I keep telling the boss to buy copies for everyone. I'll need a new copy soon :)
Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-07-24
Codin' for the Web review
Rating:
Codin' was a good introductory if you already have a solid background in computers (OS, File Systems, file types etc...) and at least an intermediate understanding of html (although to the author's credit he offers some bonus material on html if you don't). It really works well if you are an advanced html person with at least some web design experience but want to dive into scripting and creating interactive websites. He does a good job of introducing php as a language and showing some simple techniques to get you up and running quickly, especially with forms. Not a book for advanced php developers and there is really no javascript which I think would be an important component to show how the two languages can be used in conjunction. Also maybe some explanation as to when php is appropriate vs. say a full OOL (object oriented language) like java or where it might make sense to use javascript instead of php to handle front end stuff. Overall it is a good book. I thought the author could have done a better job of explaining in the form chapter how the form fields can be input into a database but he stopped after explaining the input into a flat file which most people I have found wouldn't find all that useful since a db is the way to go in most instances. He goes into the db in the next chapter and sort of leaves you hangin with the previous form explanations. He circles back around and explains in later chapters but it was a little confusing because you had to infer some stuff to make the connection. Overall I recommend the book though and I have a Master's degree in IT and am very familiar with html, css, and SQL, and now a decent foundation in php.
BTW, I found the code examples offered on his site very useful and helped me get past some of the stuff that I had to infer.
Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-02-27
Great Coding Book
Rating:
I've spent a lot of time looking for a resource I could use to teach myself php. The biggest problem I've ran into is the book/website either being 1) over my head, or 2) unbearable to read.
Luckily this item was neither of the above. Though I haven't made it though the entire book yet I have found this to be -extremely- helpful and well written. I don't come from a coding background at all so I had to find something that really started from the ground up. I found this to be easily understandable to someone who doesn't get coding. Additionally his website has two extra beginning chapters if you really need to go over the basics (which I did for the coding part).
The language is clear and concise and not confusing or dull. So I would highly, highly recommend this title to anyone from a design background looking to expand their talents. So far it's one of the best I've found.I will definitely look at this other books, the next time I'm in the market for another computer book.
Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2007-12-08
Great
Rating:
I really think this is a great book for beginners in the php/coding area, It's very clear and with a clean and good practice in mind. As for me is not that useful because of my previous php knowledge, but it's a good point of reference for those familiar with php also. Overall... great book, great explanations.
Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2007-09-25
Excellent intro to PHP & MySql
Rating:
This book provides a fantastically easy intro to a difficult subject for a beginner. The real world example of using PHP for form field validation is great for teaching the concepts involving variables, arrays, loops & general expressions. The author also answers emails if you have a problem. I highly recommend this guy! His other book "Stylin..." is also great!!!
Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-09-16
Best Yet--Hands Down!
Rating:
I have heaps of these books and I wish I'd bought this one first. Others are always pinching it off my desk as well--I keep telling the boss to buy copies for everyone. I'll need a new copy soon :)
Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2008-07-24
Codin' for the Web review
Rating:
Codin' was a good introductory if you already have a solid background in computers (OS, File Systems, file types etc...) and at least an intermediate understanding of html (although to the author's credit he offers some bonus material on html if you don't). It really works well if you are an advanced html person with at least some web design experience but want to dive into scripting and creating interactive websites. He does a good job of introducing php as a language and showing some simple techniques to get you up and running quickly, especially with forms. Not a book for advanced php developers and there is really no javascript which I think would be an important component to show how the two languages can be used in conjunction. Also maybe some explanation as to when php is appropriate vs. say a full OOL (object oriented language) like java or where it might make sense to use javascript instead of php to handle front end stuff. Overall it is a good book. I thought the author could have done a better job of explaining in the form chapter how the form fields can be input into a database but he stopped after explaining the input into a flat file which most people I have found wouldn't find all that useful since a db is the way to go in most instances. He goes into the db in the next chapter and sort of leaves you hangin with the previous form explanations. He circles back around and explains in later chapters but it was a little confusing because you had to infer some stuff to make the connection. Overall I recommend the book though and I have a Master's degree in IT and am very familiar with html, css, and SQL, and now a decent foundation in php.
BTW, I found the code examples offered on his site very useful and helped me get past some of the stuff that I had to infer.
Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2008-02-27
Great Coding Book
Rating:
I've spent a lot of time looking for a resource I could use to teach myself php. The biggest problem I've ran into is the book/website either being 1) over my head, or 2) unbearable to read.
Luckily this item was neither of the above. Though I haven't made it though the entire book yet I have found this to be -extremely- helpful and well written. I don't come from a coding background at all so I had to find something that really started from the ground up. I found this to be easily understandable to someone who doesn't get coding. Additionally his website has two extra beginning chapters if you really need to go over the basics (which I did for the coding part).
The language is clear and concise and not confusing or dull. So I would highly, highly recommend this title to anyone from a design background looking to expand their talents. So far it's one of the best I've found.I will definitely look at this other books, the next time I'm in the market for another computer book.
Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2007-12-08
Great
Rating:
I really think this is a great book for beginners in the php/coding area, It's very clear and with a clean and good practice in mind. As for me is not that useful because of my previous php knowledge, but it's a good point of reference for those familiar with php also. Overall... great book, great explanations.
Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2007-09-25
