Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide

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Book DescriptionThis is a step-by-step, tutorial guide designed to help readers transition from beginners to more experienced developers using clear explanations. The variety of examples will help readers build, secure, and host real-time web applications. If you are a developer who wants to use PHP and MariaDB to build web applications, this book is ideal for you. Beginners can use this book to start with the basics and learn how to build and host web applications. Seasoned PHP Developers can use this book to get familiar with the new features of PHP 5.4 and 5.5, unit testing, caching, security, and performance optimization.What you will learn

Grasp basic as well as advanced programming techniques with PHP and MariaDB
Perform CRUD operations, aggregations, filtering, and joins
Execute DDL operations and work with stored procedures, stored routines, and triggers
Employ concepts of objectoriented programming in PHP
Get acquainted with the latest features offered by PHP 5.4 and 5.5
Work with unit testing
Conduct file operations and logging with PHP
Implement authentication and ACLs
Improve performance optimization and security

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