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Almost every organization seeks a simple means of managing, publishing and/or providing searchable web access to information. This book demonstrates the simplicity, cost-effectiveness and versatility of designing database driven web applications with Open Source resources. It explores strategies for improving content management and web publishing.
List of contents
Weighty worlds of wonder: what's, why's and wherefore's of the Web; The open source movement; Six reasons to consider open source; The database driven web; Building block I: cascading style sheets; Building block II: PHP; Building block III: relational databases; Building block IV: database design and normalisation; Building block V: MySQL; Standards and accessibility; In pursuit of accessibility; Web development planning; The dynamic duo; The indispensable function; Database driven web applications; Case studies.
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".will provide just the kind of combined strategy, technological advice and practical coding examples to help get such projects under way and completed, even by non-specialists." --Program
".a very useful book, covering many different Open Source issues. I would definitely recommend this book." --Ruth Rikowski, London Southbank Univerity, UK
"The book is approachable, and so can be useful to both novice and the more experienced." --Ruth Rikowski, London Southbank Univerity, UK
