Web Developer Books

Our suggested reading list

An Awesome Resource! Whether you are new to PHP or a seasoned web developer, these reference books are an absolutely must read. Clean, concise, and well written, the authors are well-known and respected in the PHP community.

PHP Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)
by Julie C. Meloni
If you have never used PHP, or want to get started using a HTML embedded scripting language, PICK UP THIS BOOK! I bought this book and was building database driven websites in one weekend. I still use it all the time for a reference. Buy this book first!

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Create Dynamic Web Pages Using PHP and MySQL
by David Tansley
The areas covered in the book include form processing, passing information between forms, file uploads to the web server, cookies, session management, mailing clients, database applications, and web authentication.

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PHP and MySQL Web Development
by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
PHP and MySQL Web Development introduces readers (who are assumed to have little or no experience with the title subjects) to PHP and MySQL for the purpose of creating dynamic Internet sites. It teaches the same skills as introductory Active Server Pages (ASP) and ColdFusion books--technologies that address the same niche.

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Programming PHP
by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Programming PHP helps you up the PHP learning curve, very nearly guaranteeing that you'll find in its pages an example that illustrates every fundamental aspect of the language and its most important extension modules. Plus, there's some cool advanced stuff, like recipes for manipulating images, working with Extensible Markup Language (XML) content, and generating Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files.

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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Fast & Easy Web Development
by Aneesha Bakharia
Don't spend your time wading through manuals to learn Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Spend it doing what you do best - creating Web pages! The Fast & Easy Web Development gives you step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots for a practical, visual guide.

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Essential PHP fast: Building Dynamic Web Sites With Mysql
by Stobart Simon
How to create dynamic web environments using the PHP language and the MySQL database! If you are familiar with the syntax for C, C++ and Java, then PHP will seem very familiar. Once you have got up to speed with this HTML embedded scripting language, you will soon be creating dynamic HTML database-enabled web pages quickly and easily.

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PHP Functions Essential Reference
by Zak Greant
An Awesome Resource! Whether you are new to PHP or a seasoned web developer, this reference book is an absolutely must. Clean, concise, and well written, the authors are well-known and respected in the PHP community.

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Macromedia Studio MX
Macromedia
A great product for developing web pages. Everything you need to build state of the art web pages. Graphics with Fireworks and Freehand, Flash for Animation and Multimedia, and Dreamweaver, the industry standard for developing static and dynamic web sites.

Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / Me / XP | Mac OS

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Web Development Resources

WordPress BLOG Software

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Pen and PaperMore simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

The WordPress BLOG software is compatible with RawData Hosting Servers.*

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*Installation & support provided by mfg.

Manage MySQL on Mac OS X

YourSQL is a simple but powerful program to create and manipulate MySQL databases. It is intended to be easy to use for the beginner as well as the more advanced user, and provides access to some otherwise underused, advanced features of MySQL, such as indices, InnoDB tables, multi-statement SQL scripts and multi-threaded handling of SQL dumps for backups or similar administration tasks.

Download YourSQL for Mac OS X