If your just getting started programming or want to learn more here is a suggested book for you,
BUILD YOUR OWN DATABASE DRIVEN WEBSITE USING PHP & MYSQL
BY kEVIN YANK
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.
This book is a terrific starting point in your journey to creating dynamic websites and setting up relational databases.
‘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.
Before reading this book, I had already got my feet wet in php. It was good renforcement for some of the basic principles of php and I will refer back to it for some of the useful code provided. If you are just beginning with php & mysql this is the perfect book!
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