Introduction

If you have done some website building with HTML, CSS, and possibly JavaScript and want to add more user interaction with better form handling, greater ease of moving information among pages, and a fully relational database to your sites with PHP and MySQL, then this is the book to help you do that.

PHP and MySQL Web Development: A Beginner’s Guide takes the reader with a hands-on approach from building static web pages to creating comprehensive database-driven web applications. To do this, five of the most commonly used web programming languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL) are introduced, explored, and demonstrated through the creation of common dynamic web elements.

The reader is assumed to have some experience with ...

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