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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
