10. Common Programming Techniques

In This Chapter

Sending Values to a Script

Using Hidden Form Inputs

Editing Existing Records

Paginating Query Results

Making Sortable Displays

Review and Pursue

Now that you have a little PHP and MySQL interaction under your belt, it’s time to kick things up a notch. This chapter is like Chapter 3, “Creating Dynamic Web Sites,” in that it covers myriad independent topics. But what these have in common is that they demonstrate common PHP-MySQL programming techniques. You won’t learn any new functions here; instead, you’ll see how to use the knowledge you already possess to create standard web functionality.

The examples themselves will broaden the application started in the preceding chapter by adding new, popular ...

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