Php: A Beginner's Guide

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Essential Skills--Made Easy

Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Key Skills & Concepts--Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
  
• Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
  
• Try This--Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills
  
• Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
  
• Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
  
• Cautions--Errors and pitfalls to avoid
  
• Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge
  
• Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated
  

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 10/01/2008
ISBN: 9780071549011
Pages: 453
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.08h x 7.34w x 0.98d

Review Citations: Scitech Book News 12/01/2008 pg. 21