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Book App Inventor 2 with MySQL Database

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonio Taccetti
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-09-15
  • ISBN : 9781537680156
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book App Inventor 2 with MySQL Database written by Antonio Taccetti and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: App Inventor 2 with MySQL database is a step-by-step guide to write Android applications that use MySQL database residing on the Internet. The task is carried out in synergy between the Web components, WebWevier and Sharing App Inventor and MySQL database. The data transmission between Android App and MySQL database is ealised using php interface specially written and extensively documented. With this method the App assembled with App Inventor can share on a remote server a database whose contents you can update using a standard web browser. This means that you can deploy App whose contents can change over time, simply by changing the data in the database. Actions implemented: storing, editing, deleting, sorting, recovery and transfer records from the remote MySQL database to the Android mobile device. Sharing of data imported via the Sharing component. This guide contains detailed explanations, examples and links to download the Android app, database and php code. All examples are described and commented. Once done downloading, the files are already predisposed to be uploaded to the webserver and Android devices to be used immediately. On the basis of these concepts it will be possible to create your own personalized Android App-php-mysql custom system. For those who consider themselves novice, in the database it is described php / MySQL essential to the function of this application, and provided explanations on how to get cheap web server or free for your needs. If your app need to work with the data, this e-book can do for you!

Book App Inventor 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wolber
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2014-10-13
  • ISBN : 1491907231
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book App Inventor 2 written by David Wolber and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, you can create your own apps for Android devices—and it’s easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces you to App Inventor 2, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps. Learn App Inventor basics hands-on with step-by-step instructions for building more than a dozen fun projects, including a text answering machine app, a quiz app, and an app for finding your parked car! The second half of the book features an Inventor’s Manual to help you understand the fundamentals of app building and computer science. App Inventor 2 makes an excellent textbook for beginners and experienced developers alike. Use programming blocks to build apps—like working on a puzzle Create custom multi-media quizzes and study guides Design games and other apps with 2D graphics and animation Make a custom tour of your city, school, or workplace Control a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robot with your phone Build location-aware apps by working with your phone’s sensors Explore apps that incorporate information from the Web

Book App Inventor 2 Databases and Files

Download or read book App Inventor 2 Databases and Files written by Edward Mitchell, MS, MBA and published by Edward Mitchell. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: App Inventor 2: Databases and Files is a step-by-step guide to writing apps that use TinyDB, TinyWebDB, Fusion Tables and data files for information storage and retrieval. Includes detailed explanations, examples, and a link to download sample code. This is the first tutorial to cover all of these App Inventor database and file features. If your apps need to work with data or files - you need this book! TinyDB stores data on your smart phone or tablet and is a primary way for App Inventor apps to save data, even when the app is no longer running or if the device is turned off. TinyWebDB is similar to TinyDB, but stores your data on a remote server in the network cloud. Multiple apps can share a TinyWebDB database, plus you can update the content of your TinyWebDB using just a web browser. This means you can distribute an app whose content can change over time - just by changing the values in TinyWebDB. A big challenge is the need to set up a TinyWebDB server - this book shows how to do that through free services offered by Google. Fusion Tables provide a powerful, cloud-based database system for App Inventor apps. Creating, retrieving, updating and deleting data is done using the industry standard Structured Query Language or SQL. Fusion Tables reside in the Google network cloud - this book shows you how to set up and configure Fusion Tables for you own apps using free services of Google. As your app requirements grow, Google's cloud can provide low cost servers and bandwidth for your needs. Underneath the Android OS user interface, there is a file system, similar to the file system found on Windows or Mac OS X. With App Inventor your apps can write and read data from files, and if using the special "CSV" format, App Inventor data can be shared with many spreadsheet programs. This book shows you how to create, use and access data files, and how to convert data to and from the CSV format. Over 28,000 words. Over 250 screen shots and illustrations. Numerous sample programs and code. App Inventor 2: Databases and Files - Table of Contents 1 - Introduction 2 - Using the TinyDB database 3 - Implementing Records Using Lists in TinyDB 4 - Simulating Multiple TinyDB Databases 5 - How to Use Multiple Tags in TinyDB 6 - Introduction and Setup: TinyWebDB 7 - Managing TinyWebDB in the Cloud 8 - Programming for TinyWebDB - Demo 1 9 - Adding a Tags List to TinyWebDB – Demo 2 10 - Handling Multiple Users with TinyWebDB – Demo 3 11 - Implementing a Student Quiz Application using TinyWebDB 12 - Introduction to Fusion Tables 13 - Developing Your Fusion Table App 14 - Using Text Files in App Inventor

Book App Inventor

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wolber
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2011-05-03
  • ISBN : 1449308813
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book App Inventor written by David Wolber and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to using App Inventor to create Android applications presents step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects, including creating location-aware apps, data storage, and decision-making apps.

Book Head First PHP   MySQL

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Beighley
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0596006306
  • Pages : 812 pages

Download or read book Head First PHP MySQL written by Lynn Beighley and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, Web designers who usually turn out static Websites with HTML and CSS can make the leap to the next level of Web development--full-fledged, dynamic, database-driven Websites using PHP and SQL.

Book Learn to Program with App Inventor

Download or read book Learn to Program with App Inventor written by Lyra Logan and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to build mobile apps for Android devices with MIT App Inventor, a visual drag-and-drop programming language like Scratch. You've swiped and tapped your way through countless apps, but have you ever created one? Now you can, thanks to Learn to Program with App Inventor. In less than an hour, you'll be able to build and run your first app! App Inventor is a free software for making Android apps. All you need is a PC with an Internet connection to build your app, and a mobile phone for testing. You'll use a simple drag-and-drop interface, which minimizes errors and avoids too much typing. A certified App Inventor Master Trainer, Logan breaks down each project into logical steps, lists the components you'll need, and then shows you how to create screen designs, control program flow with conditionals and loops, and store data in variables and lists. Once you've tested the app on your phone, you can test what you learned with challenges at the end of each chapter. You'll build cool apps like: * Hi, World!: Use your voice to send a text message * Practice Makes Perfect: Rehearse a speech or dance routine with this video recording app * Fruit Loot: Catch randomly failing fruit in this exciting game * Beat the Bus: Track a friend's journey using location services and maps * Virtual Shades: Take a selfie, then try on some virtual sunglasses Join the 6 million people who have tried App Inventor, and make the journey from app user to app inventor.

Book App Inventor 2 Advanced Concepts

Download or read book App Inventor 2 Advanced Concepts written by Edward Mitchell, MS, MBA and published by Edward Mitchell. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIT App Inventor 2 is a fast and simple way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. Volume 2 in the series introduces debugging methods, explains additional controls not covered in Volume 1, introduces “agile” methods for developing a real world app, and provides sample code for using the TinyDB database. This App Inventor 2 series is targeted at adult learners (high school and up). App Inventor 2 provides a simplified “drag and drop” interface to layout your app’s screen design. Then implement the app’s behavior with “drag and drop” programming blocks to quickly assemble a program in a graphical interface. Volume 1 of this series covered the basics of the App Inventor user interface Designer and the Blocks programming editor, plus basic “blocks” programming concepts and tools for arithmetic, text processing, event handling, lists and other features. Volume 2 builds upon Volume 1 to provide tips on debugging programs when the apps work incorrectly, how to us hidden editing features, and how to install your own apps on to your phone or tablet for general use. Code samples are provided for using the Notifier component for general use or for debugging, for user interface control tricks such as buttons that change color continuously or implementing the missing “radio buttons” component, using ListPicker and Spinner for list selections, and using the WebViewer to display web pages in your app. The book includes a large section on designing and building a sample real world application and finishes with a chapter on using the TinyDB database. Chapters Introduction Chapter 1 - App Inventor Tips Chapter 2 - Debugging App Inventor Programs Chapter 3 - User Interface Control Tricks Chapter 4 - Designing and Building a Real World Application Chapter 5 - Tip Calculator Version 2 Chapter 6 - Tip Calculator Version 3 Chapter 7 - Tip Calculator Version 4 Chapter 8 - Tip Calculator Version 5 Chapter 9 – Using the TinyDB database

Book Programming the Perl DBI

Download or read book Programming the Perl DBI written by Tim Bunce and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2000-02-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest strengths of the Perl programming language is its ability to manipulate large amounts of data. Database programming is therefore a natural fit for Perl, not only for business applications but also for CGI-based web and intranet applications.The primary interface for database programming in Perl is DBI. DBI is a database-independent package that provides a consistent set of routines regardless of what database product you use--Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Informix, you name it. The design of DBI is to separate the actual database drivers (DBDs) from the programmer's API, so any DBI program can work with any database, or even with multiple databases by different vendors simultaneously.Programming the Perl DBI is coauthored by Alligator Descartes, one of the most active members of the DBI community, and by Tim Bunce, the inventor of DBI. For the uninitiated, the book explains the architecture of DBI and shows you how to write DBI-based programs. For the experienced DBI dabbler, this book reveals DBI's nuances and the peculiarities of each individual DBD.The book includes: An introduction to DBI and its design How to construct queries and bind parameters Working with database, driver, and statement handles Debugging techniques Coverage of each existing DBD A complete reference to DBI This is the definitive book for database programming in Perl.

Book Managing   Using MySQL

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Reese
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0596002114
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book Managing Using MySQL written by George Reese and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2002 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MySQL is a robust open source database product that supports key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. This text goes through the whole process from installation and configuration to programming interfaces and database administration.

Book App Inventor 2 Con Database MySQL

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonio Taccetti
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-05-14
  • ISBN : 9781533270962
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book App Inventor 2 Con Database MySQL written by Antonio Taccetti and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: App Inventor 2 con database MySQL e una guida passo-passo per scrivere applicazioni Android che utilizzano database MySQL residenti in Internet. Il compito e svolto in sinergia fra i componenti Web, WebWevier e Sharing di App Inventor e database MySQL. La trasmissione dati fra App Android e database MySQL e realizzata mediante interfaccia php appositamente scritta. Con questo metodo, App Android assemblate con App Inventor possono condividere un database su server remoto il cui contenuto e possibile aggiornare utilizzando semplicemente un browser web. Cio significa che e possibile distribuire App il cui contenuto puo cambiare nel corso del tempo, semplicemente cambiando i dati nel database. Le azioni consentite con i dati sono: memorizzazione, modifica, cancellazione, ordinamento, recupero con criteri di selezione e trasferimento dal database MySQL remoto al dispositivo mobile Android. I dati importati possono poi essere condivisi dal componente Sharing. Alla richiesta di condivisione viene presentata una lista delle App installate sul dispositivo Android fra quelle che possono gestire le informazioni ricevute (ad esempio App per email, App di social networking, App messaggi SMS e cosi via.) permettendo di scegliere quale utilizzare. In questa guida sono incluse spiegazioni dettagliate, esempi e link per scaricare la App Android, database e codice php. Tutti gli esempi sono descritti e commentati in lingua italiana. Una volta fatto il download, i file sono gia predisposti ad essere caricati su webserver e dispositivi Android per essere usati immediatamente. Sulla scorta di queste nozioni sara possibile creare un proprio sistema App Android-php-MySQL personalizzato. Per chi si considera principiante, nella parte database e descritto php/MySQL essenziale al funzionamento di questo applicativo, e fornite spiegazioni su come procurarsi web server a basso costo o gratuiti per le proprie esigenze. Per la parte App Inventor del MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), chi volesse approfondire questa tecnologia nel suo complesso alla pagina web del MIT: http: //appinventor.mit.edu/explore/books.html sono recensite guide anche in lingua italiana. Queste guide sono reperibili anche in Internet sia in formato cartaceo che e-book Se le vostre App necessitano di lavorare con i dati, questo libro puo fare per voi!"

Book Apache Sqoop Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Ting
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2013-07-02
  • ISBN : 1449364586
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book Apache Sqoop Cookbook written by Kathleen Ting and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating data from multiple sources is essential in the age of big data, but it can be a challenging and time-consuming task. This handy cookbook provides dozens of ready-to-use recipes for using Apache Sqoop, the command-line interface application that optimizes data transfers between relational databases and Hadoop. Sqoop is both powerful and bewildering, but with this cookbook’s problem-solution-discussion format, you’ll quickly learn how to deploy and then apply Sqoop in your environment. The authors provide MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL database examples on GitHub that you can easily adapt for SQL Server, Netezza, Teradata, or other relational systems. Transfer data from a single database table into your Hadoop ecosystem Keep table data and Hadoop in sync by importing data incrementally Import data from more than one database table Customize transferred data by calling various database functions Export generated, processed, or backed-up data from Hadoop to your database Run Sqoop within Oozie, Hadoop’s specialized workflow scheduler Load data into Hadoop’s data warehouse (Hive) or database (HBase) Handle installation, connection, and syntax issues common to specific database vendors

Book Learning PHP  MySQL  JavaScript  and CSS

Download or read book Learning PHP MySQL JavaScript and CSS written by Robin Nixon and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to build interactive, data-driven websites—even if you don’t have any previous programming experience. If you know how to build static sites with HTML, this popular guide will help you tackle dynamic web programming. You’ll get a thorough grounding in today’s core open source technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS. Explore each technology separately, learn how to combine them, and pick up valuable web programming concepts along the way, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. This book provides review questions in each chapter to help you apply what you’ve learned. Learn PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features Learn JavaScript fundamentals, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model Pick up CSS basics for formatting and styling your web pages Turn your website into a highly dynamic environment with Ajax calls Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications Explore a working example that brings all of the ingredients together

Book Spark  The Definitive Guide

Download or read book Spark The Definitive Guide written by Bill Chambers and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals. Youâ??ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Sparkâ??s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building end-to-end streaming applications. Developers and system administrators will learn the fundamentals of monitoring, tuning, and debugging Spark, and explore machine learning techniques and scenarios for employing MLlib, Sparkâ??s scalable machine-learning library. Get a gentle overview of big data and Spark Learn about DataFrames, SQL, and Datasetsâ??Sparkâ??s core APIsâ??through worked examples Dive into Sparkâ??s low-level APIs, RDDs, and execution of SQL and DataFrames Understand how Spark runs on a cluster Debug, monitor, and tune Spark clusters and applications Learn the power of Structured Streaming, Sparkâ??s stream-processing engine Learn how you can apply MLlib to a variety of problems, including classification or recommendation

Book I Heart Logs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jay Kreps
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2014-09-23
  • ISBN : 1491909331
  • Pages : 79 pages

Download or read book I Heart Logs written by Jay Kreps and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why a book about logs? That’s easy: the humble log is an abstraction that lies at the heart of many systems, from NoSQL databases to cryptocurrencies. Even though most engineers don’t think much about them, this short book shows you why logs are worthy of your attention. Based on his popular blog posts, LinkedIn principal engineer Jay Kreps shows you how logs work in distributed systems, and then delivers practical applications of these concepts in a variety of common uses—data integration, enterprise architecture, real-time stream processing, data system design, and abstract computing models. Go ahead and take the plunge with logs; you’re going love them. Learn how logs are used for programmatic access in databases and distributed systems Discover solutions to the huge data integration problem when more data of more varieties meet more systems Understand why logs are at the heart of real-time stream processing Learn the role of a log in the internals of online data systems Explore how Jay Kreps applies these ideas to his own work on data infrastructure systems at LinkedIn

Book MediaWiki

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel J. Barrett
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2008-10-14
  • ISBN : 0596156545
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book MediaWiki written by Daniel J. Barrett and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation."-Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line."-Rob Church, a developer of MediaWiki MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and organizing knowledge. In corporate environments, MediaWiki can transform the way teams write and collaborate. This comprehensive book covers MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features, helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll learn how to: Find your way around by effective searching and browsing Create and edit articles, categories, and user preferences Use advanced features for authors, such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of articles Install and run your own wiki, and configure its look and behavior Develop custom wiki features, called extensions, with the PHP programming language and MySQL database This book also provides special guidance for creating successful corporate wikis. For beginners who want to create or work on collaborative, community-driven websites with this platform, MediaWiki is the essential one-stop guide. "I was a MediaWiki newbie before reading this book. Now, many aspects of the platform that were murky before are crystal clear."-JP Vossen, author of O'Reilly's Bash Cookbook

Book App Inventor 2 Introduction

Download or read book App Inventor 2 Introduction written by Edward Mitchell, MS, MBA and published by Edward Mitchell. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIT App Inventor 2 is the fast and easy way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. This guide introduces the basic App Inventor features - you can likely create your first simple app in about an hour, and understand the basic components of App Inventor in a full day. App Inventor 2 is free to use and you can use it for commercial applications too. App Inventor 2: Introduction is targeted at adult learners (high school and up) and shows how to design your app’s user interface with “drag and drop” interface controls to layout your app’s screen design. Then implement the app’s behavior with unique “drag and drop” programming blocks to quickly assemble the program in a graphical interface. This introduction covers the basics of the App Inventor user interface Designer and the Blocks programming editor, plus basic “blocks” programming concepts and tools for arithmetic, text processing, event handling, lists and other features. Updates and additional tutorials are available on the book's web site at appinventor.pevest.com

Book The Joy of PHP

Download or read book The Joy of PHP written by Alan Forbes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third Edition now with bonus chapters.Have you ever wanted to design your own website or browser application but thought it would be too difficult or just didn't know where to start? Have you found the amount of information on the Internet either too daunting or not geared for your skill set or worse-- just plain boring? Are you interested in learning to program PHP and have some fun along the way? If so, then The Joy of PHP by Alan Forbes is the book for you!! Alan starts with some basic HTML so the absolute beginner can catch up quickly and then goes step by step on how PHP works. You start with the easy stuff--like how to create and run simple PHP scripts that modify web pages-- and then build on what you've learned through a series of cohesive (and fun) exercises that carry over from lesson to lesson. As the chapters progress you begin to build a web site for a growing used car dealership business. This approach keeps the material fun and challenging-- and gives what you've learned a context to be relevant. A car dealership needs a constantly changing web site because the inventory of cars is always changing. HTML is not the answer for this kind of web site-- but PHP and mySQL are! Throughout the book you will be working with the web site for the car dealership and adding features and modifying it as the needs of the business (and your knowledge) grow. This writing style reinforces the previous lessons and keeps you engaged in a "real" project -- giving you both a sense of accomplishment and an opportunity to apply what you've learned to a realistic scenario. You are far more likely to retain what you've learned using this approach than just reading dry syntax documentation. The author has an easy and fun style of writing that teaches you PHP in a simple, matter of fact manner while showing you the most common uses of the commands you need to get the job done. This keeps your learning pace quick and uncluttered. If you need it, he also points you to several resources where you can learn more about the other options a PHP function can offer and-- even better--how to read and understand those resources. If you want to learn the PHP language in an easy, enjoyable, well laid out manner and to learn why PHP and mySQL are so powerful and fun to use then buy this book!! Do not buy this book if you are looking for a comprehensive reference of boring PHP syntax. This book does not attempt to cover everything about PHP. What it does do-- and does well-- is take you from being a beginner who isn't even sure what PHP is to someone who knows the sheer joy that only programming dynamic sites can provide. You will become someone who can read, write, and modify PHP scripts and you will be able make your website come alive. Bonus Code All the source code referenced in the book is available for easy download and well organized. You don't have to cut and paste out of Kindle or retype code, unless you want to. There is even a video tutorial showing how to get started. Topics Covered... - Installing and configuring PHP - Introduction to HTML - Basic PHP Syntax - Some Fun Right Away - Editors and Staying Organized - Variables, Numbers, Dates and Strings - Control Structures - How to use a database, such as mySQL - Using PHP and mySQL Together - How to create forms to Display, Add, Edit, and Delete data - Session Variables - Working with Images - PHP File Uploads - PHP Quirks and Tips - Security Considerations This book is NOT the only book you'll ever need to read to master PHP. The book is a gentle introduction to a very rich topic. The hope of the author is to show you that PHP isn't really that scary after all, it is something YOU can do, and it can even bring you joy once you get it.