If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level - creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users through queries and web forms. With step-by-step tutorials, real-world examples, and jargon-free explanations, you'll quickly discover the power of server-side programming. This second edition provides new code files and expanded coverage of local and server-side programming. The important stuff you need to know: Learn the language. Get up to speed on PHP and SQL syntax quickly. Gain new techniques. Take advantage of the all-new chapter on integrating PHP with HTML web pages. Manage your content. Use the file system to access user data, including images and other binary files. Make it dynamic. Create pages that change with each new viewing. Build a good database. Use MySQL to store user information and other data. Keep your site working. Learn the tools for fixing things that go wrong. Control operations. Create an administrative interface to oversee your site.

About the Author
Brett McLaughlin is a bestselling and award-winning non-fiction author. His books on computer programming, home theater, and analysis and design have sold in excess of 100,000 copies. He has been writing, editing, and producing technical books for nearly a decade, and is as comfortable in front of a word processor as he is behind a guitar, chasing his two sons and his daughter around the house, or laughing at reruns of Arrested Development with his wife.


Book Information
ISBN 9781449325572
Author Brett Mclaughlin
Format Paperback
Page Count 600
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media