Re: FN-FORUM PHP/MySQL Books

date posted 1st March 2001 17:20

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:55:52PM -0000, Darren Spink wrote:
>
> OK, I managed to get on-line manuals downloaded for both PHP and MySQL, but
> neither seem particuly good. So I am now thinking that a book or two would
> be a good investmet....
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for books on these 2 packages ??
>
> The main flaw I foudn with the MySQL on-line manual, was although I don't
> have a problem with the actual SQL (text stuff that you type), the admin
> program (windows) appears to allow the creation of databases, tables and
> indexes, but I can't find a mention of it in the free documentation. So I
> think it would be handy to have some reference to that in the book....
>


For GUI front-ends, look at:

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/gui-clients.html


Particularly, for Windows:

http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/mysqlgui/mysqlgui-win32-static-1.7.4-2.zip


I found the book:

MySQL & mSQL by Yarger, Reese & King to be very good.
Published by O'Reilly, ISBN: 1-56592-434-7