Synopsis
Explains how to access and create MySQL databases through PHP scripting, including discussion of authentication, network connectivity, sessions, and content management.
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The book's bottomline is to define a good methodology for creating a site (with functionality that is used on many different kinds of sites, and that you as a programmer may well be working on in the future) by identify problems, surmising a solutions to those problems, and then implementing those solutions with code using modern development practices.
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