By Kevin Yank

“You Too Can Easily Create Impressive Database-Driven Websites Using PHP & MySQL In 30 Days Or Less”

• Learn how to install and administer PHP & MySQL on Windows, Linux or Mac.
• Build your very first live Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL.
• Instantly apply working code examples from the book to your Website.

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.

What will you learn?

This book will show you how to:

• Build a working Content Management System
• Add, edit and delete Web content without using HTML
• Set up automatic backups of your database
• Increase your database security
• Optimize the loading time of your Website
• Build an ecommerce shopping cart
• Automatically send email on triggered events
• Handle file uploads using HTML forms
• Build a Web-based file repository or photo gallery
• Utilize sessions and cookies to track site visitors
• Master MySQL database administration
• Create rich, sophisticated database driven Websites that both you and your clients will be happy with.
• And a whole lot more…

Who should read this book?

At around 350 pages, this book is an easy read. As you move through the book you’ll quickly notice that it’s written in a clear tutorial format that’s easy to understand, and illustrated with plenty of screenshots and diagrams, providing quick visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style ‘how to’ texts, then this book will be a breath of fresh air to you.

If you’ve never built a database driven Website and you’re looking go beyond the limitations of a static site, this book will get you started in no time.

If you’ve already built database driven Websites, the extensive PHP/MySQL reference guides included will ensure this book remains an extremely handy desk reference.

As always, our customers have the final say…

“Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL” has been so successful since its launch that it’s now in its third edition with dozens of re-prints over this time.

Our customers include Web Developers from companies such as IBM, DELL, Cisco, Oracle, Compaq, HP, Intel, Ford, US Army and Boeing, through to Freelance Webmasters, Web Design Shops, and hobbyists.

Here's just a sample of the hundreds of comments we've received from people like you so far...

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