# Great book for PHP/MySql

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**Created:** [August 29, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672 "2003-08-29T04:14:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![awligon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@awligon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/awligon)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672/1 "2003-08-29T04:14:13Z")

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I just picked up

> Web Database Applications with PHP and MySql  
> by O’Reilly and it’s actually very informative for moderately skilled programmers. If you’re like me, and you’ve taught yourself everything you know, you probably missed a few ‘meat and potatoes’ things along the way like bulk loading \*.cds files into a database ;). I give it seven thumbs up. :}

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672/2 "2003-08-31T01:29:19Z")

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Sounds good, I don’t have any professional training with php other then jubba lol so maybe I should look into that book

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672/3 "2003-08-31T05:48:52Z")

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I actually didn’t like that book. The best PHP book (if you are a visual learner) is this one:

> **[PHP: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764535617/qid=1062308895/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-7259903-1678464?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)**
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> This full color book is the only PHP title available that is designed for the visual learner. It covers over 100 tasks! Including using cookies to monitor the activity of Web site visitors to retrievi ...

It shows you real examples and is easy to use and see and there isn’t too much lengthy text. 🙂

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**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672/4 "2003-08-31T05:52:33Z")

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I have the book Jubba recommended and I think it is alright but sometimes it seems like you are learning some out of place things. It’s good though. I mean, I read it and I know how to use print. :thumb:

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**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672/5 "2003-08-31T05:54:15Z")

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Well if you don’t know how to implement the things that are in that book then you need to re-think your approach to PHP.

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**Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/great-book-for-php-mysql/29672/6 "2003-08-31T06:18:48Z")

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I just need to read past the first chapter. When I started it I didn’t understand any aspects of any coding language what so ever, but now it makes a lot more sense to me. My approach has been rethoughted.