Practical PHP and MySQL Website Databases: A Simplified Approach

Practical PHP and MySQL Website Databases is a project-oriented book that demystifies building interactive, database-driven websites. The focus is on getting you up and running as quickly as possible. In the first two chapters you will set up your development and testing environment, and then build your first PHP and MySQL database-driven website. You will then increase its sophistication, security, and functionality throughout the course of the book. The PHP required is taught in context within each project so you can quickly learn how PHP integrates with MySQL to create powerful database-driven websites.
Each project is fully illustrated, so you will see clearly what you are building as you create your own database-driven website. You will build a form for registering users, and then build an interface so that an administrator can view and administer the user database. You will create a message board for users and a method for emailing them. You will also learn the best practices for ensuring that your website databases are secure. Later chapters describe how to create a blog, a product catalog, and a simple e-commerce site. You will also discover how to migrate a database to a remote host. Because you are building the interactive pages yourself, you will know exactly how the MySQL and PHP work, and you will be able to add database interactivity to your own websites with ease.

Practical PHP and MySQL Website Databases: A Simplified Approach
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AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications, 2nd Edition

Book Description
AJAX enables interactive interfaces that can replace traditional user interfaces. Enhance the user experience of your PHP website using AJAX with this practical and friendly tutorial! This book is the most efficient resource you can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX with PHP.

Based on numerous examples and detailed case studies, this AJAX with PHP tutorial will build your foundation knowledge for creating faster, better web applications.

Detailed description
The best AJAX tutorial for PHP developers has been completely rewritten to be your friendly guide to modern Web 2.0 development techniques! AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications, 2nd Edition covers every significant aspect of creating and maintaining AJAX and PHP applications.

This book will teach you how to use PHP, javascript, MySQL and jQuery to build modern, responsive web applications. After building a strong foundation, the book will walk you through numerous real-world case studies covering techniques you?ll be likely to need for your own applications:

* Learn how to write unobtrusive, degradable, portable, SEO-friendly AJAX code
* Understand the object-oriented model of javascript and JSON
* Learn how to use the jQuery javascript library by going through two complete case studies
* Debug your AJAX and PHP code using modern tools
* Assess the security implications of writing AJAX code and avoid security risks such as cross-site scripting
* Learn advanced AJAX and PHP patterns and techniques such as predictive fetching, progress indicator, graceful degradation, cross-domain calls, and more
* Understand the complete client-server mechanism by going through complete, step-by-step case studies, including AJAX Form Validation, and AJAX Online Chat and AJAX Editable DataGrid with jQuery

What you will learn from this book
* Create faster, lighter, better web applications by using the AJAX technologies to their full potential
* Learn to use PHP and MySQL on the server, and javascript and jQuery on the client, to build real-world AJAX applications
* Combine client-side and server-side functionality to enhance the user experience of your site using AJAX
* Learn to simulate private, instance, and static class members in javascript
* Build an AJAX-enabled form validation page, which is safe to work even if the client doesn?t support javascript and AJAX

Approach
This book is a step-by-step, example-driven AJAX tutorial, featuring complete case studies. Each chapter contains a friendly mix of theory and practice, so that your journey through the book will be pleasant, yet efficient. You?ll be coding your first AJAX application at the end of the first chapter, and with each new chapter you?ll develop increasingly complex AJAX applications featuring advanced techniques and coding patterns.

AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications, 2nd Edition

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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

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New Perspectives on HTML, CSS, and Dynamic HTML

Part of the New Perspectives Series, this thorough, engaging includes everything readers need to learn to create simple to complex Web sites using HTML5, CSS3, and Dynamic HTML.

New Perspectives on HTML, CSS, and Dynamic HTML

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Learning PHP MySQL and JavaScript

The combination of PHP and MySQL is the most convenient approach to dynamic,
database-driven web design, holding its own in the face of challenges from integrated
frameworks—such as Ruby on Rails—that are harder to learn. Due to its open source
roots (unlike the competing Microsoft .NET framework), it is free to implement and is
therefore an extremely popular option for web development.
Any would-be developer on a Unix/Linux or even a Windows/Apache platform will
need to master these technologies. At the same time, the JavaScript is important, as it
provides the hidden communication with the web server to create seamless interfaces.

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PHP Development in the Cloud

The cloud: is it real or is it just hype? In this book, Vito and Ivo look beyond the buzzwords and figure out what the cloud is actually about and how PHP developers can take advantage of what cloud computing has to offer. After reading this book, you will not only have a clear picture of what cloud computing is, but you'll also be able to utilize the various cloud services that are out there.

Topics covered include:

• Cloud Computing primer (characteristics and models)
• Cloud Basics (prerequisites and programming)
• Cloud Architecture (horizontal scalability, preventing bottlenecks, abstraction, multi-tenancy)
• Working with Popular Cloud Infrastructures (Amazon, Rackspace, Azure)
• Working with Popular Cloud Platforms (Google, Rackspace, and others)
• Working with Popular Cloud Software and Services (OpenID, OAuth, Search, Payments, CRMs, Maps, Storage)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Cloud Computing Primer
Chapter 3. Cloud Basics
Chapter 4. Cloud Architecture
Chapter 5. Working with Popular Cloud Infrastructures
Chapter 6. Working with Popular Cloud Platforms
Chapter 7. Working with Popular Cloud Software and Services

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PHP & MySQL Web Development All-in-One Reference Dummies

Book description


Webmasters and Web programmers around the world know that PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites for eCommerce and content management. In fact, PHP is used in one of every three Web sites on the Internet and MySQL has been downloaded millions of times. PHP and MySQL provide a freely downloadable and widely supported alternative to ASP.NET.


Written by the bestselling author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies, this book provides six discreet minibooks that show you not only how to program in PHP, create and administer a MySQL database, and manipulate MySQL data via a Web interface, but also shows you how to create a secure Web site, and how to code the most popular Web applications, such as login programs and shopping cart applications.

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