Php and Mysql Web Development

by Welling, Luke; Thomson, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780672317842
• ISBN10: 0672317842
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback w/CD-ROM
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

PHP and MySQL Web Development teaches&you to develop dynamic, secure, commerical Web sites. Using the same accessible, popular teaching style of the three previous editions, this book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the rapidly changing landscape of MySQL and PHP.&The fourth edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development&includes updated examples and coverage of recent versions of PHP 5.1, new coverage of PHP security and Web 2.0 social networks, and advance information on the features of the forthcoming PHP 6, including Unicode and new object-oriented functionality. &

Author Biography

Luke Welling and Laura Thomson are partners in Tangled Web Design. They are lecturers in Web programming, software engineering, and e-commerce at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and are frequent speakers at leading open source conferences around the world, such as PHPCon, LinuxTag, and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Part I Using PHP
PHP Crash Course	9	(40)
Storing and Retrieving Data	49	(20)
Using Arrays	69	(24)
String Manipulation and Regular Expressions	93	(24)
Reusing Code and Writing Functions	117	(30)
Object-Oriented PHP	147	(24)
Part II Using MySQL
Designing Your Web Database	171	(12)
Creating Your Web Database	183	(24)
Working with Your MySQL Database	207	(20)
Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP	227	(18)
Advanced MySQL	245	(22)
Part III E-commerce and Security
Running an E-commerce Site	267	(14)
E-commerce Security Issues	281	(22)
Implementing Authentication with PHP and MySQL	303	(24)
Implementing Secure Transactions with PHP and MySQL	327	(24)
Part IV Advanced PHP Techniques
Interacting with the File System and the Server	351	(18)
Using Network and Protocol Functions	369	(22)
Managing the Date and Time	391	(10)
Generating Images	401	(28)
Using Session Control in PHP	429	(18)
Other Useful Features	447	(12)
Part V Building Practical PHP and MySQL Projects
Using PHP and MySQL for Large Projects	459	(18)
Debugging	477	(20)
Building User Authentication and Personalization	497	(42)
Building a Shopping Cart	539	(48)
Building a Content Management System	587	(30)
Building a Web-Based Email Service	617	(38)
Building a Mailing List Manager	655	(56)
Building Web Forums	711	(32)
Generating Personalized Documents in Portable Document Format (PDF)	743	(64)
Part VI
Installing PHP 4 and MySQL	781	(22)
Web Resources	803	(4)
Index	807