For situations that require dynamic content but not worth the time and complexity of application development Java or NET. Enterprise, PHP language and MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly. That's the point Hugh Williams and David Lane make in Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, which combines language tutorials with application design advice to yield a comprehensive picture of the subject at a reasonable price. Though the code listings themselves are not very many comments, the authors make commendable job explaining in prose what the code up to. Case in point: The ever-important task of using PHP to open a connection to a MySQL database, please send a request to the database, receiving the response, and the format of rows returned, if any Wall. - David Topics covered: How to use the PHP server-side scripting language and MySQL database engine to underlie dynamic Web sites (those that rely on database query) and a full-on Web applications, such as those that require management and maintenance of a list of user sessions .