Learning MySQL

Resources

We listed several resources on web database applications and PHP at the end of Chapter 13. This section lists resources you can read that contain more about using PHP with MySQL.

The descriptions we’ve provided in this chapter are simplified: we’ve omitted function parameters that are rarely used, avoided some of the details of how the functions are used, and shown some optional parameters as mandatory. See the MySQL manual (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php) for more detail on MySQL functions.

There are also many useful web sites that include tutorials, sample code, online discussion forums, and links to sample PHP applications. The official PHP site links page (http://www.php.net/links.php) points to most of these sites. These include:

http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/php

The MySQL AB web page on using PHP with MySQL

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php

The PHP manual section on MySQL