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Subject: [OM] Re: OT My proposed database fields
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:38:42 -0500
This is interesting.  I checked the reviews on Amazon for "Teach 
Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache" and most reviewers have rated it highly. 
There are a few, however, that have panned it like Brian does.  There 
seems to be little middle ground.

Chuck Norcutt


Brian Swale wrote:

> Chris wrote
> 
>>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:58:41 +0000
>>
>>Heh!  I am just looking through "PHP & MySql for Dummies", learning  
>>about the structure of SQL databases thinking that it looks rather  
>>similar to horrid old Acc*ss :-)
>>
>>Your list looks fine to me, but as a serious suggestion, Allan, have  
>>you looked to see which fields are produced by the camera and by the  
>>software that is now available for photo editing and cataloguing? 
> 
> 
> Quite a few months back when Andrew McPhee was active in this group and 
> started the OM Odyssey, he was using php, and he or somebody else 
> mentioned in the same breath MySQL.
> 
> For the life of me I couldn't see any difference at my end between html and 
> Andrew's php, but he said he thought it was the best thing since the 
> invention of sliced bread, so I thought I'd take a look at it.
> 
> Through http://www.bookfinder.com/ I found a book;
> 
> SAMS "Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache" written by Julie C. Meloni.
> 
> Big mistake. This turned out to be the most irritating book I have ever had 
> the 
> misfortune to open in 64 years of opening books.  It is probably capable as 
> far as it goes. It wades right in at the start by explaining where to 
> download 
> from, then how to install and create privileges.  But NOWHERE AT ALL does 
> it say what the purpose of these languages is. Nowhere.  
> 
> What do they do? No idea.
> 
> If I tripped over the bloke who wrote it I'd probably throw the book at him !!
> 
> There is also a suggestion, but I'm not sure; it's kind of a hint; that these 
> programs should be installed on a server and not on a *standard* desktop 
> machine (whatever that is). But absolutely no explanation or elaboration.
> 
> I did try contacting the associate publisher, one Mark Taber at 
> samspublishing.com but the email didn't work 2 years after the book was 
> published. Perhaps just as well ...
> 
> Brian (still fuming).
> 
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