- ISBN13: 9780596006303
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Product Description
If you’re ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teaches you all the essentials of server-side programming, from the fundamentals of PHP and MySQL coding to advanced topics such as form validation, session IDs, cookies, database queries and joins, file I/O operations, content management, and more.
Head First PHP & MySQL offers the same visually rich format that’s turned every title in the Head First series into a bestseller, with plenty of exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and other interactive features to help you retain what you’ve learned.
- Use PHP to transform static HTML pages into dynamic web sites
- Create and populate your own MySQL database tables, and work with data stored in files
- Perform sophisticated MySQL queries with joins, and refine your results with LIMIT and ORDER BY
- Use cookies and sessions to track visitors’ login information and personalize the site for users
- Protect your data from SQL injection attacks
- Use regular expressions to validate information on forms
- Dynamically display text based on session info and create images on the fly
- Pull syndicated data from other sites using PHP and XML
Throughout the book, you’ll build sophisticated examples — including a mailing list, a job board, and an online dating site — to help you learn how to harness the power of PHP and MySQL in a variety of contexts. If you’re ready to build a truly dynamic website, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ideal way to get going.
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Disregard the one star rating because I nver got this book. Some glitch at Amazon decided my address was undeliverable even though I’ve been getting packages for 10 years. I was really hoping to get this book because I like the HTML CSS book by the same group. Amazon, please look into this glitch.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
Well. I bought this book based on a misleading forum post. I’m a PHP programmer myself and wanted to get more in depth on certain areas regarding the language. If you like confusion, then this book is the one you should get. I couldn’t get past reading one page, I tried and tried but all of the drawings, funny pictures of people (what the hell what that for?), and graphical elements I just couldn’t, basically impossible. What a mess. Never returned a book to Amazon before, ever, but this one I sent back… It was very disappointing. Just think that a page of this book tries to explain something simple using a Graffiti like form. HUH ? PHP is not hard at all, why make it look like it?
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
This product was delivered to me very quickly and is a very informative book. Very nice buy!!
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
The materials presented in this book are very confusing I had to stop reading and pick up another PHP book.
The writers quiz you on stuff they haven’t talked about and wants you to learn from the answer afterward… How annoying!
I am giving the book two stars because I did learn a few things from it.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Good to learn how this stuff works. Still making my way through the book but I’m surprisingly absorbing a lot in just a short time from it.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5