Christopher Jones’ Blog: Book Review: PHP Oracle Web Development
Original post provide by PHP FreaksChristopher Jones has posted a review of one of the latest PHPrelated books published by Packt Publishing PHP Oracle Web Development:
Yuli Vasiliev has put a lot of realworld PHP and Oracle experience into his book PHP Oracle Web Development. The book’s reviewer, Arup Nanda, was, amongst other things, Oracle’s DBA of the Year in 2003. The result is an excellent book that joins the PHP and Oracle worlds together.
Christopher talks about some of what the book covers (like installation and code snippets) and the book’s excellent focus on different topics, giving each it’s own full coverage.
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