For Dummies | ISBN: 0470167777 | 646 pages | January 29, 2008 | PDF | 3 MB Webmasters and
Web programmers around
the world know that
PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution
for creating dynamic, database-driven
Web sites
for eCommerce and content management. In fact,
PHP is used in one of every three
Web sites on
the Internet and MySQL has been downloaded millions of times.
PHP and MySQL provide a freely downloadable and
widely supported alternative to ASP.NET.
Written by
the bestselling author of
PHP & MySQL
For Dummies, this book provides six discreet minibooks that show you not only how to program in
PHP, create and administer a MySQL database, and manipulate MySQL data via a
Web interface, but also shows you how to create a secure
Web site, and how to code
the most popular
Web applications, such as login programs and shopping cart applications.
The minibooks are organized as follows: Book I:
PHP Programming - Setting Up Your
PHP Environment,
PHP Basics, Building
PHP Scripts,
PHP and Your Operating System, Object-Oriented Programming.
Book II: Using MySQL - Setting Up MySQL, Administering MySQL, Building a Database, O
ther Administrative Tasks, Using MySQL Administrator, Using MySQL Query, Using
phpMyAdmin.
Book III: Using
PHP with MySQL - Communicating with
the Database; Creating and Modifying Database Structure; Adding, Updating, and Removing Data; Retrieving Data from
the Database; Advanced Features.