Dynamic Web Application Development Using PHP and MySQL

by Stobart, Simon; Parsons, David

• ISBN13: 9781844807536
• ISBN10: 1844807533
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA

Summary

Providing an end-to-end view of how modern web applications are built, Dynamic Web Application Development takes a cohesive approach to building a software architecture from core components. It tells a development story by taking you right through from analysis and design, learning the core technologies, and tying them together using standard tools patterns and frameworks without straying into detail or trying to cover too many alternatives. Using PHP scripting and the MySQL database management system, this is a contemporary and well targeted coverage of important areas of web application development including Ajax, , adaptive markup, web application frameworks, standards and conformance, accessibility and security issues. It shows you how to build functionality into a website using a variety of technologies. These will work as a basic framework from which you will be able to explore more challenging developments such as porting applications to mobile devices and including more Web 2.0 features. An ideal text for web programming courses, this book will help you whether you are a student or need to reskill and want a dependable and accessible self-study package.

Author Biography

David Parsons holds a senior academic post in the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Web Applications	p. 1
Web Application Requirements: Analysis and Design	p. 19
Structure and Content in the Presentation Layer: the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)	p. 53
Styling in the Presentation Layer: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	p. 89
Content, Structure and Validation: XML, DTD and XHTML	p. 123
Introduction to JavaScript	p. 155
Interactive JavaScript: Dynamic HTML, Client-Side Validation and Ajax	p. 187
Introduction to PHP	p. 225
Flow of Control	p. 253
Form Interaction	p. 277
Strings and Arrays	p. 309
Files, Cookies, Sessions and Email	p. 341
Functions, Dates and Times and Redirection	p. 373
Databases	p. 401
Linking PHP to a Database	p. 435
Introducing Object Orientation	p. 465
Object-Oriented Inheritance and Polymorphism	p. 495
Combining Ajax and PHP - Making the Web More Dynamic	p. 525
Conformance to Standards and Accessibility	p. 555
Building More Secure and Robust Web Applications	p. 585
Appendix	p. 619
Index	p. 627
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