Create Dynamic Webpages Using PHP & MySQL - Softcover

Tansley, Mr David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201734028 ISBN 13: 9780201734027

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

PHP is a new web script language that's been around for about 5 years. PHP is very fast, it is an open source server side scripting language and was designed for web page generation and back-end database access. It supports all the major DBMS systems like postgres, MySQL,Sybase etc.
This book is aimed at getting the reader up and running with PHP and MySQL quickly. The author will take the reader through PHP basics moving on to basic form processing and then onto more intermediate form processing using cookies. It is a gentle approach to the teaching of PHP and MySQL the design and pace of the book will reflect this.
The book will be divided into 2 parts - the first part will cover PHP as a web programming language, the second part will cover PHP being used to access database back-ends.

About this title

About the Author

David Tansley has been working with Unix and Linux for over 10 years. He works at AceUK - a major Lloyds of London Underwriting Agency - and has lots of hands-on practitioner experience. He is the author of Linux & Unix Shell Programming (AW) and writes a monthly column for Enterprise Linux Magazine

From the Back Cover

Create Dynamic Webpages with PHP and MySQL

David Tansley

Do you want to learn the essentials of PHP in an easy manner with the help of expert

guidance and a wealth of practical examples? Would you like to be able to create dynamic

web pages and learn how to interact with MySQL database even though you may have

little or no experience? Then this book is for you.

 

You don’t need prior knowledge of programming as this book will provide you with

everything you need to know about PHP, MySQL and how to create dynamic webpages.

You learn by example from the many practical examples throughout the book. You will

taught how to create simple web pages first and then gradually build up to using forms.

PHP is the scripting language of choice for Linux server – even if you haven’t got a

web server installed, don’t worry. The first chapter of this book covers what to install

and configure in an easy to understand way. And all the software you need is on the accompanying CD-Rom which includes apache, Netscape, PHP, and MySQL source code.

Plus, all the scripts from the book.

Skills you will learn

• How to install and configure the Linux server
• Essentials of PHP programming – handling form processing, saving state, loops and arrays, strings and pattern matching, web server variables plus many other features.

• Essentials of MySQL database – connecting MySQL with PHP, Guest book application,, Gotcha application, and Internal shopping cart application.

• How to secure Apache using authentication – web authentication, using PHP to controlAccess, using a database to store users and passwords, using htaccess files.

About the author

David Tansley has many years' experience in UNIX, and Linux, as a systems administrator on a variety of platforms, and is currently a Senior Systems and Database Administrator at Ace Global Markets, a Lloyds of London Underwriting Agency. He is the author of Linux and Unix Shell Programming also published

By Addison Wesley.

 

 

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201734028
• ISBN 13: 9780201734027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512