PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide, Fifth Edition

2. Programming with PHP

In This Chapter

Creating an HTML Form

Handling an HTML Form

Conditionals and Operators

Validating Form Data

Introducing Arrays

For and While Loops

Review and Pursue

Now that you have the fundamentals of the PHP scripting language down, it’s time to build on those basics and start truly programming. In this chapter you’ll begin creating more elaborate scripts while still learning some of the standard constructs, functions, and syntax of the language.

You’ll start by creating an HTML form and then learn how you can use PHP to handle the submitted values. From there, the chapter covers conditionals and the remaining operators (Chapter 1, “Introduction to PHP,” presented the assignment, concatenation, and mathematical operators), ...