PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This book takes you step-by-step through understanding each — using it and combining it with the other two on both Linux and Windows servers.
This book guides you through creating your own sites using the open source AMP model. You discover how to install PHP, Apache, and MySQL. Then you create PHP Web pages, including database management and security. Finally, you discover how to integrate your work with e-commerce and other technologies. By building different types of Web sites, you progress from setting up simple database tables to tapping the full potential of PHP, Apache, and MySQL.
When you’re finished, you will be able to create well-designed, dynamic Web sites using open source tools.
What does this book cover?
Here's what you will learn from this book:
How PHP server-side scripting language works for connecting HTML-based Web pages to a backend database
Syntax, functions, and commands for PHP, Apache, and MySQL
Methods and techniques for building user-friendly forms
How to easily store, update, and access information using MySQL
Ways to allow the user to edit a database
E-commerce applications using these three technologies
How to set up user logins, profiles, and personalizations
Proper protocols for error handling
Who is this book for?
This book is for beginners who are new to PHP and who need to learn quickly how to create Web sites using open source tools. Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful but not essential.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - It's time is past!!
Well its been on my shelf for a couple years and how I've opened it. I am on page 165 and back to Amazon to search for a book to replace it.
The book is outdated. The forum for the book is not well visited. The support code for the book is failing images and some files. The code is written inconsistantly, different authors, and there is no mention of this or proper coding examples. Variables are created on the fly and creates some error messages with uptodate PHP. The explanations of certain ... Read More
Rating: - This book was written by functional illiterates
The authors are great PHP programmers, I have no doubt, but terrible writers. I do not recommend this book. Like most bad technical writers, they make a big production about trivial concepts, then gloss over difficult concepts without explaining them in detail.
Rating: - A Truly Excellent Book for the "Beginner"
This book is really quite good. It's very interesting & definitely very readable. When I read it, I got straight down to business, so to speak. It gives very practical examples starting you off with making a movie review site which was very interesting! All in all, an excellent book to give you a working knowledge of PHP & MySQL.
That said, there are some shortcomings.
-Significant amount of typos in the code
-Some minor parts of the code requires redoing (which ... Read More
Rating: - Solid coverage of beginning topics
I used this book as a tutorial on the subject with graduate students who had only basic programming experience and we all agreed that it was a great way to get started with database-backed PHP work.
Rating: - Not Worth One Star
Worst book of all time, sorry guys and gals but whoever wrote and edited this book should buy a book themselves "Learn to Write and Edit by DUMMIES". To many typo's and script errors which did not work!
Actually I would give the book a 5 star rating if they changed the name to Trouble Shooting Script Errors, Test Your Skills!
- It's time is past!!
- This book was written by functional illiterates
- A Truly Excellent Book for the "Beginner"
- Solid coverage of beginning topics
