Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Fourth Edition
is a major update of W. Jason Gilmore's authoritative book on PHP and MySQL. The fourth edition includes complete coverage of PHP 5.3 features, including namespacing, an update of AMP stack installation and configuration, updates to Zend Framework, coverage of MySQL Workbench, and much more.
You'll not only receive extensive introductions to the core features of PHP, MySQL, and related tools, but you'll also learn how to effectively integrate them in order to build robust data-driven applications. Gilmore has seven years of experience working with these technologies, and he has packed this book with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers. Accordingly, you will repeatedly return to this book as both a valuable instructional tool and reference guide.
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Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
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978-1-4302-3114-1 (9781430231141)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-3115-8
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W. Jason Gilmore is a web developer and business consultant with more than 15 years of experience helping companies large and small build amazing software solutions. He has been teaching developers from around the world about web development for over a decade, having written six books, including the bestselling Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition and Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, Second Edition .Over the years Jason has been published more than 300 times within popular publications such as Developer.com, PHPBuilder.com, JSMag, and Linux Magazine, and instructed hundreds of students in the United States and Europe. He s recently led the successful development and deployment of a 10,000+ product e-commerce project, and is currently working on a variety of new e-commerce initiatives. Jason is cofounder of the wildly popular CodeMash Conference, the largest multi-day developer event in the Midwest.
Introducing PHP.- Configuring Your Environment.- PHP Basics.- Functions.- Arrays.- Object-Oriented PHP.- Advanced OOP Features.- Error and Exception Handling.- Strings and Regular Expressions.- Working with the File and Operating System.- PEAR.- Date and Time.- Working with HTML Forms.- Authenticating Your Users.- Handling File Uploads.- Networking.- PHP and LDAP.- Session Handlers.- Templating with Smarty.- Web Services.- Securing Your Web Site.- Creating Ajax-enhanced Features with jQuery and PHP.- Building Web Sites for the World.- Introducing the Zend Framework.- Introducing MySQL.- Installing and Configuring MySQL.- The Many MySQL Clients.- MySQL Storage Engines and Data Types.- Securing MySQL.- Using PHP with MySQL.- Introducing PDO.- Stored Routines.- MySQL Triggers.- MySQL Views.- Practical Database Queries.- Indexes and Searching.- Transactions.- Importing and Exporting Data.
