Php 5 For Dummies
Pub. Date: April 2004 | Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated | Format:pdf | Series: For Dummies Series, # | ISBN-13: 9780764541667 | ISBN: 0764541668 | size : 2mb | www.woebooks.com
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
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Pt. I Say hello to the PHP scripting language 7
Ch. 1 Getting to know PHP 9
Ch. 2 Setting up the environment 19
Ch. 3 Creating your first PHP script 35
Pt. II Variables and data 51