Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

PHP and MySQL Web Development (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library)

Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

Programming

Setting Up LAMP: Getting Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Working Together

Format: Paperback
Author: Eric Rosebrock
ReleaseDate: 22 July, 2004
Publisher: Sybex
Rating:

A great resource on this subject
If you just want to have a system running a web server and you don't really care about how it works and what is going on, then this is definitely not the book for you. One of the things I liked about this book was the amount of detail it had on its subjects, and yet it is not a 1000 page novel. However, if you really want to learn how these components work together and exactly what is going on, then I do recommend this book. After taking a Linux course, I picked this up and still learned quite a bit from the introduction to Linux chapter. Everything is very clearly written and easy to understand. The only thing I didn't like was that many of the pages are devoted to listing configuration files, but you can easily just skip over these if they don't apply to you.

Mixed review of material covered
If you are looking for a "how to" reference book that covers MySQL and PHP in depth, you will probably be disappointed. If you are looking for a book that provides a brief overview, you will be satisfied with Eric Rosebrock's book. The book merely provides basic information as the title states: "Setting Up LAMP: Getting Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Working Together" that being LAMP installation and configuration procedures on a FEDORA Linux environment. This book offers the necessary information to install FEDORA Linux, and getting your Apache web server operating with MySQL and PHP. Rosebrock's book does save you the time and effort of having to glean information from those various "open source computer geeks" (right brain) web sites. .

Great book - got everything working (took a while)
Finally I sat down and spent some dedicated time with this book and got it working. I've been working on getting my RedHat Fedora 3 working with LAMP.

apache: apache_1. 3. 33
mysql: 5. 0. 2-alpha
php-5. 1. 1

This is my environment I setup and it worked! Good step by step instructions and the quick reference steps in the back of the book were excellent.

Highly recommend.