PHP and MySQL5 Programming (Second Edition)

Author: Zhu Taojiang
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: This book comprehensively introduces the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database, two of the most popular open-source software currently. The main content includes fundamental concepts of PHP and MySQL, PHP extensions and application libraries, date and time functions, PHP Data Objects (PDO), the PHP mysqli extension, stored procedures in MySQL 5, triggers, and views. The book is highly practical, helping readers learn the best practices of PHP programming language and MySQL database server, and understanding how to combine these excellent technologies to create database-driven dynamic web applications. The PHP language and MySQL database are the best combination for developing database-driven web applications. According to surveys, over 20 million domains worldwide have installed PHP, and MySQL installations have exceeded 5 million.
This book is a renowned classic, famous for its comprehensive and detailed coverage. The selection and organization of topics are practical, with the author's own application experience added alongside the knowledge. It provides dense practical code examples, fully demonstrating the author's profound development expertise. The book's introduction to PHP is the most comprehensive to date, emphasizing not only basic knowledge but also PHP's object-oriented features, error and exception handling, secure programming, and other important aspects such as dates and times, regular expressions, file and operating system operations, file uploads, PEAR library, Smarty templates, SQLite, and PDO, which are rarely covered in other books but crucial in practice. The explanation of MySQL revolves around the development of dynamic web sites, thorough yet concise. The book is suitable not only for beginners to quickly learn and improve but also as a reference for experienced programmers.
This book comprehensively introduces the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database, two of the most popular open-source software currently, covering main topics such as fundamental concepts of PHP and MySQL, PHP extensions and application libraries, date and time functions, PHP Data Objects (PDO), the PHP mysqli extension, stored procedures in MySQL 5, triggers, and views.