Errata for Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS

Missing the Smarty chapetr that was in the first edition. There is however references to it in the second.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Please disregard this mention. Smarty is not covered in the 2nd edition due to its decline in general popularity and implementation. Unfortunately that sentence was not caught during proofing.

With the release of Zend Server 6, Zend Server Community Edition (Zend CE) has been replaced with a new product called Zend Server Free Edition. It offers all the same functionality (and more), but installs and sets up slightly differently than the manner described in the book. Therefore the tinyurl.com link given for the previous product, doesn't work, but you can get the new free server from the following URL: http://zend.com/en/products/server/free-edition Or the shorter: http://tinyurl.com/zendfree To take this development into account I have completely rewritten Chapter 2 around the new Zend Server Free Edition, and have uploaded a PDF of the chapter to the following URL: http://lpmj.net/ch02.pdf Please refer to this version of the chapter instead, particularly if you're using a Mac, as the MySQL install is now actually a little easier because there's less command line configuring to perform. - Robin Nixon

Reads, "Let's add a more few lines..." instead of "Let's add a few more lines...."

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'public' (T_PUBLIC) Example 5-14. Creating a constructor method <?php class User { function User($param1, $param2) { // Constructor statements go here public $username = "Guest"; } } ?> and <?php class User { function __construct($param1, $param2) { // Constructor statements go here public $username = "Guest"; // } } ?> Visibility should be declared in the scope of the class definition: <?php class User { public function User($param1, $param2) { // Constructor statements go here $username = "Guest"; } } ?> and <?php class User { public function __construct($param1, $param2) { // Constructor statements go here $username = "Guest"; // } } ?> See PHP Manual>Classes and Objects>Visibility: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.visibility.php P.S. Thank you VERY much for your hard work on LPMJC, 2nd Ed.! Absolutely luculent material; would absolutely recommend to anyone interested in dynamic web design looking for a great introductory text on the subject! Looking forward to 3rd Edition...? 8)

Note from the Author or Editor:
Following are the corrected examples 5-14 and 15: <?php // Example 5-14 class User { public function User($param1, $param2) { // Constructor statements go here $username = "Guest"; } } ?> <?php // Example 5-15 class User { public function __construct($param1, $param2) { // Constructor statements go here $username = "Guest"; // } } ?>

reads, "--if you are have ever used a strongly..." instead of "--if you have ever used a strongly..."

"the uppercase letter Q, the eighth element down and the FIFTH along..." This should read: FOURTH.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Yes, the word fifth should be fourth.

"It contains is..." The word "all" should be added at the begining of the sentence: "All it contains is..."

Note from the Author or Editor:
The paragraph under Figure 9-2 should read: Table 9-12 is just such a table. It was extracted from Table 9-7, the Purchases table, but omits the purchase date information. It contains a copy of the ISBN number of every title sold, along with the customer number of each purchaser.

"the first six lines" This does not match the current version of the code in Example 10-8.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The second paragraph under Figure 10-2 should read: The first section of new code starts by using the isset function to check whether values for all the fields have been posted to the program. Upon such confirmation, each of the lines within the if statement calls the function get_post, which appears at the end of the program. This function has one small but critical job: fetching the input from the browser.

Reference to Example 10-31 - this doesn't exist - should be 10.22.

"you can use the session_destroy function in association with the unset function, as in Example 12-7." Example 12-7 does not use an unset function!

Note from the Author or Editor:
The first paragraph under the Ending a Session heading should be: When the time comes to end a session—usually when a user requests to log out from your site—you can use the session_destroy function, as in Example 12-7. This example provides a useful function for totally destroying a session, logging out a user, and unsetting all session variables.

In both <div> objects inside <body> elements, there are missing the words "div" in the text that will be shown in the browser.

Note from the Author or Editor:
For the sake of total clarity, in Example 18-2 of LPMJC Ed 2 you could replace the following line: <div>This text is within a tag</div> with this one: <div>This text is within a div tag</div>

"The box model of an objectS" should be: object

"Pseudoelements p::first-letter" There should be only a single colon, not two.

"<DOCTYPE html>" The exclamation point is missing. It should be: <!DOCTYPE html>

The title in the example ("Transitioning on hover") does not match the title at the top of the window in the figure ("CSS Rotate Example").

<br clear=left/> it should be <br clear='left'/> Word left is without ' ' .

Note from the Author or Editor:
While the following (at the end of example 21-1) will work just fine: <br clear=left /> It is always better to place arguments in quotes, like this: <br clear='left' />

"GRANT PRIVILEGES ON..." This should be: GRANT ALL ON...

Note from the Author or Editor:
The answer to Q3 should be: GRANT ALL ON newdatabase.* TO 'newuser' IDENTIFIED BY 'newpassword';

(See Tables 18-1 and 18-2) should be (See Tables 17-1 and 17-2)