Large Commercial Sites
For the past few months I have been learning PHP and MySQL in my free time. I have ideas for money making entrepreneur-style websites (worth a try, right? ). I'd like to develop the sites myself but I'm struggling to find resources that offer a straight up, detailed guide to creating high traffic database driven websites.
So far all the books I have bought come across as "here's a chapter on how to make x application, but in the real world it's much more complex". In other words, workaround solutions that wouldn't be suitable for ACTUAL high traffic db driven sites. I'm understanding the material fine, it just doesn't seem thorough enough for real world.
I'm contemplating buying Sitepoint's "Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL", but since each book I've bought costed $20-40 and so far none of them have been up to what I'd consider industry standard, I'm slightly reluctant to shell out another $40 at risk of getting rehashed version of the "watered down version of real world apps" style approach the other books had. Has anyone bought this book? Would you be able to develop a site like, say, IGN using the info in it?
Alternatively, if anybody can list a few key points that I can research (i.e. security issues, relational databases etc.) I'd be more than happy to go off and locate the articles myself. It's just knowing what I need to LEARN that's the problem.
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