PHP Crash Course takes you from beginner to professional PHP programming, through hundreds of in-depth examples and hands-on exercises. You'll explore best practices for developing fast, secure, and easy-to-maintain websites, while establishing a broad foundation of programming knowledge and experience. You'll also learn how to create consistent, modern-looking web pages with easily customizable templates by combining dynamic PHP scripts, static HTML code, and Bootstrap styling; how to write scripts that can communicate with MySQL to enable data-rich web apps; and how to implement best-practice website security. As you follow along, you'll learn real-life patterns and modern programming techniques for creating, extending, and modifying web applications, all using the powerful PHP language.
About the AuthorDr. Matt Smith is a senior lecturer in computing at Technological University Dublin, specializing in web applications and immersive technologies. With over 30 years of teaching experience and degrees from the University of Huddersfield (BA), the University of Aberdeen (MSc), and the Open University (PhD), he has been at the forefront of PHP-based web development education since the mid-2000s.
Book InformationISBN 9781718502529
Author Matt SmithFormat Paperback
Page Count 800
Imprint No Starch Press,USPublisher No Starch Press,US