Janet Valade

PHP 5 for Dummies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uses a friendly, easy-to-understand style to show Web designers howto use the latest major release of PHP, the most popular opensource Web scripting language. PHP is easy to learn,database-friendly, and especially well suited for Web developmentbecause it can be embedded with HTML.

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Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style
_ PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years
_ PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases
_ Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP's features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780764541667
• ISBN-10: 0764541668
• Artikelnr.: 12205125

Autorenporträt

Janet Valade is the author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies. In addition, she has authored and revised chapters for several Linux books and for a Webmaster certification book. Janet Valade has 20 years experience in the computing field. She worked as a Web designer/programmer for an engineering firm. Prior to that, Janet worked for several years in a university environment as a systems analyst. During her tenure, she supervised the installation and operation of computing resources, designed and developed a data archive, provided technical support for faculty and students, wrote numerous technical papers, and developed and presented seminars and workshops on a variety of technology topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Say Hello to the PHP Scripting Language. Chapter 1:
Getting to Know PHP. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Environment. Chapter 3:
Creating Your First PHP Script. Part II: Variables and Data. Chapter 4:
Using Variables in PHP Scripts. Chapter 5: Working with Data. Chapter 6:
Storing Data in Groups by Using Arrays. Part III: Basic PHP Programming.
Chapter 7: Controlling the Flow of the Script. Chapter 8: Reusing PHP Code.
Chapter 9: Object-Oriented Programming Meets PHP. Part IV: Common PHP
Applications. Chapter 10: The Basics of Web Applications. Chapter 11: Other
Web Applications. Chapter 12: Storing Data with PHP. Chapter 13: PHP and
Your Operating System. Chapter 14: PHP Extensions. Part V: The Part of
Tens. Chapter 15: Ten Things to Look For When Troubleshooting a Script.
Chapter 16: Ten PHP Resources You Can't Live Without. Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Installing PHP. Appendix B: Useful PHP Built-in Functions.
Index.