Web developers discovered MySQL and PHP provide a best open source combination to create dynamic, database-driven Web sites. Here is the book that lets you best from PHp and MySQL such that there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create.

This book features easy step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, including expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications.

This guide is indispensable for intermediate- to advanced level Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest versions of both technolog ... Read more to Download »