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Best Book or CBT for programming newb on PHP/MySQL?

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thirdlegstump

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I'm basically looking for an easy to understand book on PHP and MySQL (or the whole LAMP deal) for a programming beginner aimed at building CMSs. Most tutorials online I've found always have serious grammar/spelling mistakes and difficult to understand terminology that basically assumes you already know other programming languages and can hack his/her way through.

Anyway I'm pretty good at figuring out how things work but when it comes to programming, things get a bit too specific and so I figured a book is the best way to go but I'm not sure which one...

My initial goal is to build a simple CMS with a flexible backend that can be applied to any design almost seamlessly using MySQL databases for user and content data storage. Sounds like a lot of work for a beginner but I have the whole design, concept idea and logic figured out already. It's just a matter of me learning to the tools to make it happen.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.
 
DO NOT GOOGLE "CBT VIDEO" and PRESS "I M FEELING LUCKY".

BOSS AND I LEARNED THIS THE HARDWAY AT LUNCH LAST WEEK.
 
More specifically, the gray border around the nav buttons are way too thick. Looks like some photoshop noob started messing around with the layer style "stroke" tool.
 
Originally posted by: deathkoba
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
DO NOT GOOGLE "CBT VIDEO" and PRESS "I M FEELING LUCKY".

BOSS AND I LEARNED THIS THE HARDWAY AT LUNCH LAST WEEK.
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Umm...why did you make me go to that site?
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DID YOU NOT READ MY POST ?
NSFW
 
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
DO NOT GOOGLE "CBT VIDEO" and PRESS "I M FEELING LUCKY".

BOSS AND I LEARNED THIS THE HARDWAY AT LUNCH LAST WEEK.
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LOL, the look on your boss and your face must've been priceless 😀

--GiLtY
 
Oh, one thing I'd like to add, brush up on a little database theory. It'll come in handy as you begin expanding the rows of data.

Basically don't dump ALL your data into ONE table, rather spread it out across three, or four, and join them through unique ids, if you want a clearer explanation or a diagram of the database layout of my CMS PM me.

--Mark
 
Originally posted by: deathkoba
I did read your post, hence my actions.
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I TAKE IT YOU WERE THE TYPE OF KID WHO WHEN TOLD, "DON'T TOUCH THE HOT FRYING PAN", STUCK YOUR HEAD IN THE OVEN, NEXT TO THE TURKEY ?

Point take though, should've labeled it NSFW originally.
 
I like O' Reilly's Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL book, for a beginner I would suggest WROX's Beginning PHP4.
 
Thanks. I went ahead and purchased the WROX book. I'm a programming newb not just to PHP so I needed something that didn't assume I already knew the lingo.
 
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