Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites

Author:Robin Nixon

Publisher:O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Release Date:13-Aug-2012

Learn how to build interactive, data-driven websites—even if you don’t have any previous programming experience. If you know how to build static sites with HTML, this popular guide will help you tackle dynamic web programming. You’ll get a thorough grounding in today’s core open source technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS.

Explore each technology separately, learn how to combine them, and pick up valuable web programming concepts along the way, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. This book provides review questions in each chapter to help you apply what you’ve learned.

Learn PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming

Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries

Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features

Learn JavaScript fundamentals, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model

Pick up CSS basics for formatting and styling your web pages

Turn your website into a highly dynamic environment with Ajax calls

Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications

Explore a working example that brings all of the ingredients tog