Recommended textbook for my ACC course: Introduction to PHP

PHP for the World Wide Web, Larry Ullman

Beginner to intermediate level self-study guide on PHP for the World Wide Web. Takes a visual approach, offering readers step-by-step instructions with illustrations and screen shots to clarify procedures. Includes a companion Web site which features the code for the text, updates, and online resources.

Recommended textbook for my ACC course: Introduction to PHP

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites Larry Ullmann 

Using step-by-step instructions, clearly written scripts, and expert tips to ease the way, author Larry Ullman discusses PHP and MySQL separately before going on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. A companion Web site includes source code and demonstrations of techniques used in the volume.

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Build Your Own Database Driven Website Kevin Yank

As a budding Web developer, you need to learn and master PHP and MySQL. Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven Web site using PHP and MySQL.

Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache
Julie Meloni

A new edition of the best selling book that covers three popular open-source tools in one complete Starter Kit package. Revised and updated to reflect major changes in new versions of PHP, MySQL, and PHP 5. Carefully steps the reader through the basic set up of PHP, MySQL, and Apache, and shows how to combine these technologies to quickly create simple interactive Web applications. CD-ROM allows the reader to install a safe, foolproof learning environment for either a Windows or Linux-based PC.

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Online Communities

Community Building on the Web
Amy Jo Kim

Strategies for designing Web sites around the needs of particular groups of people, attracting those people to your site, and motivating them to return frequently. Community identification, member profiling, community leadership, and organization (of information, time, and relationships) all receive ample coverage.

Recommended textbook for my ACC course:
Online Communities

Blog, Hugh Hewitt

"Blog" is short for "Web log"-an online site with time-dated postings, maintained by one or more posters, that features links and commentary. But that is like saying a car is a means of transportation featuring four wheels. Millions are changing their habits when it comes to information acquisition, and the blogosphere has appeared so suddenly as to surprise even the most sophisticated of analysts. In Blog, best-selling author Hugh Hewitt helps you catch up with and get ahead of this phenomenon.