Beginning PHP and MySQL 5
From Novice to Professional
2nd Edition
Published on 25. November 2006
952 pages
978-1-4302-0117-5 (ISBN)
Description
- Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites.
- Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
- Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as creating an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted e-mail, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a web interface.
- Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapters introducing triggers, stored procedures, and views.
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"A comprehensive introduction to . the scripting language PHP and the MySQL database server. This book will not only expose . core aspects of both technologies, but will provide valuable insight into how they are used in unison to create dynamic data-driven Web applications." (it-expert, Issue no. 48, 2004)
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Person
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.
Content
An Introduction to PHP.- Installing and Configuring Apache and PHP.- 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.- Forms and Navigational Cues.- Authentication.- Handling File Uploads.- Networking.- PHP and LDAP.- Session Handlers.- Templating with Smarty.- Web Services.- Secure PHP Programming.- SQLite.- Introducing PDO.- Introducing MySQL.- Installing and Configuring MySQL.- The Many MySQL Clients.- MySQL Storage Engines and Datatypes.- Securing MySQL.- PHP's MySQL Extension.- PHP's mysqli Extension.- Stored Routines.- MySQL Triggers.- Views.- Practical Database Queries.- Indexes and Searching.- Transactions.- Importing and Exporting Data.
