Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL

Build Your own Database Driven Web Site 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 web site 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 that include:

MySQL syntax
MySQL functions
MysQL column types
PHP functions for working with MySQL
Who should read this book?
At around 479 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, this book will be a breath of fresh air to you.

If you’ve never built a database driven web site and you’re looking to go beyond the limitations of a static site, this book will start you off in no time.

If you’ve created database driven web sites before, the extensive PHP and MySQL reference guides included will ensure this book remains an extremely handy desk reference.

Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, 4th Edition