Kurzbeschreibung
Essential Skills--Made Easy Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.Designed for Easy Learning:Key Skills & Concepts--Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter.Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips.Try This--Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills.Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered.Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things.Cautions--Errors and pitfalls to avoid.Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge.Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated.
Synopsis
Explaining how to build cutting-edge Web appications with the latest version of PHP, a hands-on tutorial for novice programmers with a basic Web design familiarity covers the fundamentals of the open-source HTML-embedded scripting language; discusses using databases and XML with PHP; and reviews PHP scripts, numbers, scalar values, variable types,
