Overview

PHP & MySQL are the most widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today. As a Web developer you can demand a lot more $$$ for your time if you can master PHP & MySQL.

‘Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL’ is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database driven Website using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live Web-based content management system.

While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL which include:

• MySQL Syntax
• MySQL Functions
• MySQL Column Types, and
• PHP Functions for working with MySQL.
• And more

‘Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL’ also includes download access to all the code samples used throughout the book so you can adapt them to your own custom Web solutions.