Appendix C. Resources

This book was written with a specific purpose in mind: teaching how to develop dynamic Web sites using PHP and MySQL. In the course of the material, some secondary subjects were mentioned (e.g., JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets), and some primary subjects were glossed over. The resources listed in this appendix should help fill in the gaps and round out the information presented.

Besides the included resources, I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with the companion Web site to this text. By pointing your browser to www.DMCInsights.com/phpmysql2, you'll find

• More Web links (over 350 at last count)

• Sample scripts not demonstrated in this book

• Extra tutorials and information

• A support forum for questions and issues arising from this book

• An errata page, listing printing errors (which unfortunately do happen)

All of the resources listed in this chapter are items I have come across that may be useful to the average reader. Referencing something here does not constitute an endorsement, nor does it imply that each of these is the best possible resource or tool for your needs. And, as the Web is an ever-changing place, some of these sites may shut down, and new, possibly better, ones will arrive.

Finally, I should state in advance that I only list Web resources here (even the two magazines mentioned are available for download). Naturally there are oodles of books available on many of the topics I mention in this appendix. Just offhand, I can think of several on PHP, MySQL, and related subjects that I've written, and this book's publisher (Peachpit Press, www.peachpit.com) has put out many excellent titles on CSS, JavaScript, HTML, and the like.