PHP and MySQL Web Development

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Sams Publishing, 2003 - Computers - 871 pages
"PHP and MySQL Web Development" teaches the reader to develop dynamic, secure, commercial Web sites. Using the same accessible, popular teaching style of the first edition, this best-selling book has been updated to reflect the rapidly changing landscape of MySQL and PHP.The book teaches the reader to integrate and implement these technologies by following real-world examples and working sample projects, and also covers related technologies needed to build a commercial Web site, such as SSL, shopping carts, and payment systems.The second edition includes new coverage of how to work with XML in developing a PHP and MySQL site, and how to draw on the valuable resources of the PEAR repository of code and extensions.
 

Contents

Overview
1
PHP Crash Course
11
Storing and Retrieving Data
51
Using Arrays
71
String Manipulation and Regular Expressions
95
Reusing Code and Writing Functions
117
ObjectOriented PHP
145
Using MySQL
167
MySQL
315
Advanced PHP Techniques
335
Managing the Date and Time
379
Generating Images
387
Using Session Control in PHP
413
Other Useful Features
429
Building Practical PHP and MySQL Projects
436
Debugging
455

Creating Your Web Database
181
Working with Your MySQL Database
203
Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with
221
Advanced MySQL
241
Ecommerce and Security
258
Running an Ecommerce Site
261
Ecommerce Security Issues
273
Implementing Authentication with PHP
283
MySQL
293
Implementing Secure Transactions with PHP
302
Building User Authentication and Personalization
471
Building a Shopping Cart
511
Building a Content Management System
555
Building a WebBased Email Service
585
Building a Mailing List Manager
621
Building Web Forums
675
Generating Personalized Documents in Portable
704
Connecting to Web Services with XML and SOAP
739
Appendixes
787
B Web Resources
813

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