Create Dynamic Webpages Using PHP & MySQL (Practical solutions series)

PHP is a new web script language that's been around for about 5 years. PHP is very fast, it is an open source server side scripting language and was designed for web page generation and back-end database access. It supports all the major DBMS systems like postgres, MySQL,Sybase etc. This book is aimed at getting the reader up and running with PHP and MySQL quickly. The author will take the reader through PHP basics moving on to basic form processing and then onto more intermediate form processing using cookies. It is a gentle approach to the teaching of PHP and MySQL the design and pace of the book will reflect this. The book will be divided into 2 parts - the first part will cover PHP as a web programming language, the second part will cover PHP being used to access database back-ends.