The follow-up to the bestselling task-based guide to MySQL and PHP, at a price readers will appreciate.; Popular visual format offers the fastest, most efficient way to begin creating dynamic Web sites with MySQL and PHP.; Revised for the first time in over two years, this book is fully updated for PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1, showing readers how to combine the two to create database-driven Web sites.; Companion Web site contains source code, a support forum, extra tutorials, and more. It hasn't taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there's no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that users can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and 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 more dynamic. The companion Web site includes source code, support forums, and extra tutorials. In addition to being updated for the most recent releases of MySQL and PHP, this new edition offers 25 per cent new material, including updated examples for improved clarity and comprehension and new, more fool-proof installation instructions for PHP, MySQL, and other related technologies. Companion web site offers source code and demonstrations of techniques used in the book, as well as support forums and extra tutorials.

Author Biography

Digital-media expert and database designer Larry Ullman is the author of the bestselling previous edition of this book: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide, as well as PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide, and MySQL: Visual QuickStart Guide.