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To be on the cutting edge, Web sites need to serve up HTML, CSS, and products specific to the needs of different customers using different browsers. An effective e–commerce site gathers information about users and provides information they need to get the desired result.
PHP scripting language with a MySQL back–end database offers an effective way to design sites that meet these requirements. This full updated 4th Edition of PHP & MySQL For Dummies gets you quickly up to speed, even if your experience is limited.
- Explains the easy way to install and set up PHP and MySQL using XAMPP, so it works the same on Linux, Mac, and Windows
- Shows you how to secure files on a Web host and how to write secure code
- Packed with useful and understandable code examples for Web site creators who are not professional programmers
- Fully updated to ensure your code will be compliant based on PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.31
- Provides clear, accurate code examples
PHP & MySQL For Dummies, 4th Edition provides what you need to know to create sites that get results.
Note: CD–ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Learn to use the tools that bring Web sites to life —it′s easy and fun!
Static Web sites don′t cut it anymore. To serve up HTML, CSS,and database–driven pages, you need to know your way around PHP and a MySQL backend database. This book shows you how to build two common applications: a product catalog and a member–only site requiring a username and password. You′ll learn a basic design you can expand however you choose!
New to all this? — get acquainted with PHP and MySQL and find out how to install them on Windows®, Mac®, or Linux®
A perfect partnership — see how the language and database work together to produce dynamic Web pages with less hassle
MySQL moving and storage — store data in your database and display it on your Web pages
Up to code — learn to build PHP scripts and program pieces with code that meets the latest standards
The sum of the parts — organize all the parts of your application, ensure security, and complete your documentation
Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/php&mysqlfd4e to find all the code examples used in the book
Open the book and find:
How to keep up with PHP and MySQL updates
What′s different in the newest versions
Pros and cons of Web hosting companies
How to back up and restore data in your database
Error messages and what they mean
Why you must plan your database application
Advice on what offers value to your users
Ten "gotchas" that will mess up your code
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It didn't disappoint - I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who, like me, comes from a straight-up HTML coding background with no prior programming knowledge whatsoever. It provides a great introduction to both the SQL and PHP languages, and the real-world examples are very useful and straightforward.
Those who have prior coding experience of any kind would probably find it slow going and would be better off with a more advanced title - since reading this I purchased Greenspan and Bulger's 'MySQL/PHP Database Applications' which is a more in-depth and comprehensive affair but which may have overwhelmed me somewhat had I chosen it as my first book on the subject!
Anyway, as a measure of the book's success, within three weeks of receiving it I had successfully implemented a 'members only' fan club area of a website for a client based on the code examples supplied with the book, as well as creating an online competition application of my own from scratch.
There are a couple of errors in the code supplied, but spotting and correcting these is good practice! Otherwise I'm really hard-pressed to find any other criticisms - for the price it's got to be the best introduction to PHP out there.
It's quite a light read and getting all of Apache, MySQL and PHP on the CD is a positive bonus.
I knew nothing about either of these until I got this and I've picked them both up quite rapidly.
I think the next book will be the O'Reilly one but as a first book on the subject I think this makes a very good choice.
If I have one criticism it would be that it would have been nice to get a copy of the MySQL databases the book uses - then you could truly have played along with the examples in the text but really this would be a nice to have and it doesn't detract from the book in any great way at all.
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