Beginning PHP and MySQL
From Novice to Professional
3rd Edition
Published on 9. July 2008
XXXIV, 1080 pages
978-1-4302-0299-8 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive introduction to two of the most prominent open source technologies on the planet: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server. It's the third edition of W. Jason Gilmore's very successful book that has sold in excess of 13,000 units over the previous two editions, and it's been updated to cover the new features in PHP as that language makes the very significant jump from version 5 to version 6.
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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
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.- Forms.- Authenticating Your Users.- Handling File Uploads.- Networking.- PHP and LDAP.- Session Handlers.- Templating with Smarty.- Web Services.- Secure PHP Programming.- SQLite.- Building Web Sites for the World.- MVC and the Zend Framework.- Introducing MySQL.- Installing and Configuring MySQL.- The Many MySQL Clients.- MySQL Storage Engines and Datatypes.- 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.
