PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual, 2e - Softcover

McLaughlin, Brett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449325572 ISBN 13: 9781449325572

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2012

Synopsis

If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level--creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users. With step-by-step tutorials, this completely revised edition gets you started with expanded coverage of the basics and takes you deeper into the world of server-side programming.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get up to speed quickly. Learn how to install PHP and MySQL, and get them running on both your computer and a remote server.
• Gain new techniques. Take advantage of the all-new chapter on integrating PHP with HTML web pages.
• Manage your content. Use the file system to access user data, including images and other binary files.
• Make it dynamic. Create pages that change with each new viewing.
• Build a good database. Use MySQL to store user information and other data.
• Keep your site working. Master the tools for fixing things that go wrong.
• Control operations. Create an administrative interface to oversee your site.

About this title

About the Author

Brett McLaughlin is a bestselling and award-winning non-fiction author. His books on computer programming, home theater, and analysis and design have sold in excess of 100,000 copies. He has been writing, editing, and producing technical books for nearly a decade, and is as comfortable in front of a word processor as he is behind a guitar, chasing his two sons and his daughter around the house, or laughing at reruns of Arrested Development with his wife.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449325572
• ISBN 13: 9781449325572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 543