How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL (How to Do Everything)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Edition: 1st Edition March 31, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0072257954
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072257953
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Description
This new release in the popular How to Do Everything series explains how to build open source web applications with MySQL and PHP 5. Using these two tools, you’ll be able to create highly functional, interactive web sites easily. Follow along with a step-by-step sample application and, as a bonus, download three full-length case studies complete with code trees.

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Create MySQL database-driven Web sites and applications with PHP quickly and easily. This step-by-step guide explains how to take full advantage of PHP’s built-in support for MySQL and link the results of database queries to Web pages. You’ll get full details on PHP programming and MySQL database development, and then you’ll learn to use these two cutting-edge technologies together. Easy-to-follow sample applications include a PHP online shopping cart, a MySQL order tracking system, and a PHP/MySQL news publishing system.

• Set up a PHP/MySQL development environment on Windows or UNIX
• Write PHP scripts and use variables, statements, and operators
• Create reusable code with arrays and custom functions
• Use files, sessions, cookies, and external programs
• Create a MySQL database and use SQL commands
• Edit database records and perform queries
• Control access and privileges with the MySQL security system
• Query a MySQL database with PHP
• Validate user input to maintain database integrity
• Format query output for optimal results

About the author: Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire, a company specializing in Web development and content creation for a variety of clients. He is the author of MySQL: The Complete Reference.

Reader Reviews
If you want to work directly with HTML, PHP, and SQL without extra tools like PEAR, Smarty, Dreamweaver, etc., you may like this book. For small projects that do not need to be pretty and especially for learning how the code all works together, I like the approach of having the SQL, HTML, and PHP all on one page for a change. I am using the examples to convert an old ASP/Access project to PHP/MySQL and find the examples helpful.