PHP and MySQL for Dummies Paperback - 2009 - 4th Edition

From the rear cover

Learn to use the tools that bring Web sites to life --it's easy and fun!

Static Web sites don't cut it anymore. To serve up HTML, CSS, and database-driven pages, you need to know your way around PHP and a MySQL backend database. This book shows you how to build two common applications: a product catalog and a member-only site requiring a username and password. You'll learn a basic design you can expand however you choose!

• New to all this? -- get acquainted with PHP and MySQL and find out how to install them on Windows(R), Mac(R), or Linux(R)

• A perfect partnership -- see how the language and database work together to produce dynamic Web pages with less hassle

• MySQL moving and storage -- store data in your database and display it on your Web pages

• Up to code -- learn to build PHP scripts and program pieces with code that meets the latest standards

• The sum of the parts -- organize all the parts of your application, ensure security, and complete your documentation

Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/php&mysqlfd4e to find all the code examples used in the book

Open the book and find:

• How to keep up with PHP and MySQL updates

• What's different in the newest versions

• Pros and cons of Web hosting companies

• How to back up and restore data in your database

• Error messages and what they mean

• Why you must plan your database application

• Advice on what offers value to your users

• Ten "gotchas" that will mess up your code