November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
15h 24m
English
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Introduction
Given that you’re reading this book, the chances are good that you’ve built a web page in HTML. You’ve styled it by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and maybe written a little JavaScript to validate your custom-built web forms. If that wasn’t enough, you’ve learned a lot more JavaScript, threw in some jQuery, and constructed a whole lot of web pages. Maybe you’ve even moved your JavaScript into external files, shared your CSS across your entire site, and validated your HTML with the latest standards.
But now you want more.
Perhaps you’ve become frustrated with your website’s inability to store user information in anything beyond cookies. Maybe you want a full-blown online store, complete with PayPal integration and details about what items are in stock. Or maybe you’ve simply caught the programming bug and want to go beyond what HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can easily give you.
If any of these are the case—and you may find that all of these are the case—learning PHP and MySQL is a great way to take a giant programming step forward. Even if you’ve never heard of PHP, you’ll find it’s the best way to go from building web pages to creating full-fledged web applications that store all sorts of information in databases. This book shows you how to do just that.
What PHP and MySQL Can Do
PHP can handle payment processing on its own, and it can connect with services like PayPal and Google Checkout. PHP can store and load images from a database or a file system and give you the ability ...
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