PHP5 and MySQL® Bible - Softcover

Converse, Tim; Park, Joyce; Morgan, Clark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764557467 ISBN 13: 9780764557460

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Synopsis

• This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basicsof PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL4.012, the most popular open source database engine
• Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, howto add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL
• Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications withPHP and MySQL
• Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and designMySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling;debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR databasefunctions
• The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to usePHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience

About this title

About the Author

Tim Converse has written software to recommend neckties,answer questions about space stations, pick value stocks, and makesimulated breakfast. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from theUniversity of Chicago, where he taught several programming classes.He is now an engineering manager in the Web search group at Yahoo!.

Joyce Park has an M.A. in history from the University ofChicago, and has worked for several Silicon Valley startupsincluding Epinions, KnowNow, and Friendster. She is a co–lead ofthe Mod–pubsub Open Source project.

Clark Morgan is a Web application and educationalsoftware developer with more than five years experiencewriting PHP. He works primarily with medical clients and relatedbusinesses. Originally from Boston, he now lives and works inJacksonville, Florida, with his wife and two children. Clark spendsentirely too much of his free time reading other people scomputer books.

From the Back Cover

If PHP5 and MySQL can do it, you can do it too...

PHP and MySQL form a powerful team, and if you have some fluencywith HTML, this comprehensive guide will have you creatingdatabase–backed, PHP–driven Web sites in no time. Along with thenew features of PHP5, you’ll learn to install, administer, anduse MySQL 4.0 in database design. From getting started with PHP toconnecting HTML Web pages to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle®,you’ll find what you need to take advantage of all thisdynamic duo has to offer.

Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of PHP5 and MySQL

• Resolve common "gotchas" with a series of symptom/diagnosis/fixpatterns
• Discover how to use PHP with Oracle and PostgreSQL as well asMySQL
• Integrate PHP with Java , JavaScript , and XML
• Use PHP to embed code fragments in normal HTML pages
• Find out how the new PHP5 parser supports genuine exceptionhandling and a more complete object model
• Understand Zend Engine 2 and the new object model, with supportfor private/protected members, abstract classes, andinterfaces
• Install MySQL and learn to administer it successfully,including backups, replication, and recovery
• Write MySQL–backed PHP applications
• Learn from case studies how to design and implement a Weblog, auser identification system, and other applications

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764557467
• ISBN 13: 9780764557460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1080