Essential PHP fast : Building Dynamic Web Sites with MySQL

✍ Scribed by Simon Stobart BA (Hons), PhD, MBCS, CEng (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Essential Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How to create dynamic web environments using the PHP language and the MySQL database!
If you are familiar with the syntax for C, C++ and Java, then PHP will seem very familiar. Once you have got up to speed with this HTML embedded scripting language, you will soon be creating dynamic HTML database-enabled web pages quickly and easily.
This quick and practical introduction explains:
- how PHP works and what a dynamic web page is;
- the software development environment;
- the syntax and features of the language;
- how PHP can be integrated with MySQL databases;
- dynamic database applications.
Clearly written, this book provides you with all the essential information you need to create your own dynamic web environments using PHP.
Additional material is available from the Essential series web site: http://www.essential-series.com

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Creating a Typical PHP Development Environment....Pages 7-16
Introducing PHP....Pages 17-29
Variables: Integer and Floating-Point Data Types....Pages 31-41
Variables: Strings....Pages 43-53
Accessing Environment and PHP Variables....Pages 55-61
Investigating Expressions, Operands and Operators....Pages 63-79
Controlling the Flow of Control....Pages 81-101
Interacting with the User....Pages 103-115
Arrays....Pages 117-131
The MySQL Database Management System....Pages 133-147
Accessing MySQL Databases Using PHP....Pages 149-173
Implementing Functions....Pages 175-194
Cookies....Pages 195-201
File Handling....Pages 203-214
Classes and Objects....Pages 215-233
Further Information Resources....Pages 235-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-249

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval