MySQL Cookbook (2007)

Appendix D. References

This appendix lists some references that you should find helpful if you want more information about topics discussed in this book.

MySQL Resources

The primary MySQL web site is http://www.mysql.com/.

Bibliography

MySQL Administrator’s Guide and Language Reference. MySQL AB. MySQL Press. Indianapolis. 2006. 0-672-32870-4.

MySQL. Paul DuBois. Sams Developers Library. Indianapolis. 2005. 0-672-32673-6.

Perl Resources

The primary MySQL web site is http://www.mysql.com/.

Additional DBI and CGI.pm documentation is available from the command line:

%perldoc DBI

% perldoc DBI::FAQ

% perldoc DBD::mysql

% perldoc CGI.pm

Or online:

Bibliography

Programming Perl. Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2000. 0-596-00027-8.

Perl Cookbook. Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2003. 0-596-00313-7.

Programming the Perl DBI. Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2000. 1-565-92699-4.

Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm. Lincoln Stein. Wiley Computer Publishing. New York. 1998. 0-471-24744-8.

MySQL and Perl for the Web. Paul DuBois. New Riders. Indianapolis. 2001. 0-735-71054-6.

Ruby Resources

The primary Ruby web site is http://www.ruby-lang.org/, where you can download Ruby distributions and find links to documentation.

Bibliography

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide. Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt. Pragmatic Press. 2004. 0-974-51405-5.

Ruby Cookbook. Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2006. 0-596-52369-6.

PHP Resources

The primary PHP web site is http://www.php.net/, which provides access to PHP distributions and documentation. The site for PEAR, the PHP Extension and Add-on Repository, is http://pear.php.net/; PEAR includes the DB database abstraction module.

Bibliography

Learning PHP 5. David Sklar. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2004. 0-596-00560-1.

PHP Cookbook. David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2002. 0-596-10101-5.

Python Resources

The primary Python web site is http://www.python.org/, which provides access to Python distributions and documentation.

General documentation for the DB-API database access interface is available at http://www.python.org/topics/database/. Documentation for MySQLdb, the MySQL-specific DB-API driver, is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/.

The Vaults of Parnassus serves as a general repository for Python source code: http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/.

Bibliography

Python Essential Reference. David M. Beazley. Sams. Indianapolis. 2006. 0-672-32862-3.

Python Cookbook. Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, and David Ascher. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2005. 0-596-00797-3.

Java Resources

The primary Java web site is http://java.sun.com/. Sun’s Java site provides access to documentation (including the specifications) for JDBC, servlets, JSP, and the JSP Standard Tag Library:

§ JDBC general information: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/database.jsp

§ JDBC documentation: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jdbc/

§ Java servlets: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/

§ JavaServer Pages: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/

§ JSP Standard Tag Library: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/

Bibliography

Database Programming with JDBC and Java. George Reese. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2000. 1-565-92616-1.

JavaServer Pages. Hans Bergsten. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2003. 0-596-00563-6.

JSTL in Action. Shawn Bayern. Manning Publications. Greenwich, CT. 2002. 1-930-11052-9.

Other Resources

These resources provide information about other topics covered in this book.

Bibliography

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2006. 0-596-52732-2.

Mastering Regular Expressions. Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. O’Reilly Media. Sebastopol, CA. 2006. 0-596-52812-4.