PHP and MySQL Bible - Softcover

This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience

If PHP5 and MySQL can do it, you can do it too...

PHP and MySQL form a powerful team, and if you have some fluency with HTML, this comprehensive guide will have you creating database-backed, PHP-driven Web sites in no time. Along with the new features of PHP5, you?ll learn to install, administer, and use MySQL 4.0 in database design. From getting started with PHP to connecting HTML Web pages to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle®, you?ll find what you need to take advantage of all this dynamic duo has to offer.

Inside, you?ll find complete coverage of PHP5 and MySQL

• Resolve common "gotchas" with a series of symptom/diagnosis/fix patterns
• Discover how to use PHP with Oracle and PostgreSQL as well as MySQL
• Integrate PHP with Java™, JavaScript™, and XML
• Use PHP to embed code fragments in normal HTML pages
• Find out how the new PHP5 parser supports genuine exception handling and a more complete object model
• Understand Zend Engine 2 and the new object model, with support for private/protected members, abstract classes, and interfaces
• Install MySQL and learn to administer it successfully, including backups, replication, and recovery
• Write MySQL-backed PHP applications
• Learn from case studies how to design and implement a Weblog, a user identification system, and other applications