PHP and MySQL: The Missing Manual

If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level-creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users through queries and web forms. With step-by-step tutorials, real-world examples, and jargon-free explanations, youll soon discover the power of server-side programming.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get a running start. Write PHP scripts and create a web form right away.
• Learn the language. Get up to speed on PHP and SQL syntax quickly.
• Build a database. Use MySQL to store user information and other data.
• Make it dynamic. Create pages that change with each new viewing.
• Be ready for mistakes. Plan error messages to help direct users.
• Manage your content. Use the file system to access user data, including images and other binary files.
• Control operations. Create an administrative interface to oversee your site.

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Brett McLaughlin has become one of the most well-known authors and programmers in the Java and XML communities. He's worked for Nextel Communications, implementing complex enterprise systems, at Lutris Technologies, actually writing application servers, and most recently at O'Reilly Media, Inc., where he continues to write and edit books that matter. His most recent book, "Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook", was the first book available on the newest version of Java, and his classic Java and XML remains one of the definitive works on using XML technologies in Java.

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The Missing Credits; About the Author; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; What Is PHP?; What Is MySQL?; About This Book; About the Online Resources; Safari Books Online; Part 1: PHP and MySQL Basics; Chapter 1: PHP: What, Why, and Where?; 1.1 Gathering Your Tools; 1.2 Writing Your First Program; 1.3 Running Your First Program; 1.4 Writing Your Second Program; 1.5 Upload Your HTML, CSS, and PHP; 1.6 Running Your Second Program; Chapter 2: PHP Syntax: Weird and Wonderful; 2.1 Get Information from a Web Form; 2.2 Working with Text in PHP; 2.3 The $_REQUEST Variable; 2.4 What Do You Do with User Information?; Chapter 3: MySQL and SQL: Database and Language; 3.1 What Is a Database?; 3.2 Installing MySQL; 3.3 SQL Is a Language for Talking to Databases; Part 2: Dynamic Web Pages; Chapter 4: Connecting PHP to MySQL; 4.1 Writing a Simple PHP Connection Script; 4.2 Cleaning Up Your Code with Multiple Files; 4.3 Building a Basic SQL Query Runner; Chapter 5: Better Searching with Regular Expressions; 5.1 String Matching, Double-Time; Chapter 6: Generating Dynamic Web Pages; 6.1 Revisiting a Users Information; 6.2 Planning Your Database Tables; 6.3 Saving a Users Information; 6.4 Show Me the User; 6.5 Redirection and Revisitation of Creating Users; Part 3: From Web Pages to Web Applications; Chapter 7: When Things Go Wrong (and They Will); 7.1 Planning Your Error Pages; 7.2 Finding a Middle Ground for Error Pages with PHP; 7.3 Add Debugging to Your Application; 7.4 Redirecting on Error; Chapter 8: Handling Images and Complexity; 8.1 Images Are Just Files; 8.2 Images Are For Viewing; 8.3 And Now for Something Completely Different; Chapter 9: Binary Objects and Image Loading; 9.1 Storing Different Objects in Different Tables; 9.2 Inserting a Raw Image into a Table; 9.3 Your Binary Data Isnt Safe to Insert...Yet; 9.4 Connecting Users and Images; 9.5 Show Me the Image; 9.6 Embedding an Image Is Just Viewing an Image; 9.7 So Which Approach is Best?; Chapter 10: Listing, Iterating, and Administrating; 10.1 Some Things Never Change; 10.2 Listing All Your Users; 10.3 Deleting a User; 10.4 Talking Back To Your Users; 10.5 Standardizing on Messaging; 10.6 Integrating Utilities, Views, and Messages; Part 4: Security and the Real World; Chapter 11: Authentication and Authorization; 11.1 Start with Basic Authentication; 11.2 Abstracting Whats the Same; 11.3 Passwords Dont Belong in PHP Scripts; 11.4 Passwords Create Security, But Should Be Secure; Chapter 12: Cookies, Sign-ins, and Ditching Crummy Pop-ups; 12.1 Going Beyond Basic Authentication; 12.2 Logging In with Cookies; 12.3 Adding Context-Specific Menus; Chapter 13: Authorization and Sessions; 13.1 Modeling Groups in Your D...

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