The easy way to build your own database-driven website.
This book is a hands-on guide that will help you build your first database driven website. In the fifth edition of this best-selling book, you’ll learn how to use PHP (used on 20 million sites worldwide) to build your own working content management system using entirely free software. The book also teaches you best practices in database design using MySQL, and covers all the latest technologies.
What will I learn?
In-depth Tutorials: Easy-to-follow tutorials with downloadable code examples.
Best-practice PHP Coding: Learn rock-solid PHP programming principles from the start.
Hassle-free Setup Instructions: Get yourself up and running on OS X, Windows, and Linux with ease.
Fun Example Project: Put your knowledge to work building a working CMS: your own online joke database.
Object Oriented Programming (OOP): Keep your PHP manageable and flexible using OOP principles.
Add a Shopping Cart: Develop a working ecommerce platform from scratch.
Who should read this book? PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 5th Edition is a 500+ page book aimed at web designers looking to make the leap into server-side programming. You’ll be expected to be comfortable with simple HTML, although no knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or JavaScript is required.
By the end of this book, you’ll have a grasp of what’s involved in building a database driven website. If you follow the examples, you’ll also learn the basics of PHP (a server-side scripting language that gives you easy access to a database, and a lot more) and Structured Query Language (SQL—the standard language for interacting with relational databases) as supported by MySQL, the most popular free database engine available today. Most importantly, you’ll come away with everything you need to start on your very own database driven site!
What’s new in the fifth edition?
Up-to-date: updated for Windows 7, Mac OS X Lion, and the latest versions of PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin.
Now even easier to get started: using all-in-one installation packages like XAMPP and MAMP.
No command prompt required: phpMyAdmin is used for all database administration tasks, and for sending SQL commands to MySQL.
Best practice database code: this edition uses the robust and portable PHP Data Objects (PDO) API and prepared statements to work with MySQL.
HTML5 markup: easy-to-read HTML5 markup that all the cool kids are using these days.
