Quickly master dynamic, database-driven Web development—no experience necessary!Even if you’re completely new to PHP, MySQL, and Web database development, this book will guide you through every step of building powerful, database-driven, dynamic Web sites. Direct from the world’s top scripting instructor, Ellie Quigley, PHP and MySQL by Example illuminates every concept with tested code examples, screen shots showing program output, and clear, line-by-line explanations. Classroom-tested in Ellie Quigley’s Silicon Valley training courses and at Marko Gargenta’s Marakana training company in San Francisco, this book takes you from the simplest PHP scripting and SQL querying techniques all the way to dynamic, database driven Web site construction with PHP and MySQL. From simple fill-in forms to program security and debugging, it’s the only PHP/MySQL book you’ll ever need! This book covers Complete PHP fundamentals, including operators, strings, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and more PHP QuickStart for more advanced readers—makes you productive with PHP in the space of just fifteen book pages Essential Web development techniques, from file handling to validating user input with regular expressions Powerful PHP features, including user-defined functions and self-processing PHP Forms Day-to-day MySQL administration A complete SQL tutorial for creating queries, retrieving data, and writing data with MySQL Session management and cookies Object Oriented PHP Best practices for using PHP and MySQL together Nearly 100,000 professionals and power users have relied on Ellie Quigley’s books to master scripting languages. With PHP and MySQL by Example, you can, too. And once you’ve become an expert, you’ll turn to this book constantly as your go-to source for reliable answers, solutions, and code. About the CD-ROMThe CD-ROM contains versions of PHP and MySQL for Windows and UNIX/Linux, plus a comprehensive code library for creating your own sites and database-enabled Web applications, including this book’s powerful Art Gallery case study application. Lab SolutionsSolutions to the end-of-chapter labs are available at www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0131875086.

Table of Contents:
Preface xxiiiAcknowledgments xxivChapter 1: Introduction 11.1 From Static to Dynamic Web Sites 1 1.2 About PHP 4 1.3 About MySQL 7 1.4 Chapter Summary 11 Chapter 2: Getting Started 132.1 The Life Cycle of a Web Page 13 2.2 The Anatomy of a PHP Script 15 2.3 Some Things to Consider 21 2.4 Review 31 2.5 Chapter Summary 37 Chapter 2 Lab 38 Chapter 3: PHP Quick Start 413.1 Quick Start, Quick Reference 41 3.2 Chapter Summary 57 Chapter 4: The Building Blocks: Data Types, Literals, Variables, and Constants 594.1 Data Types 59 4.2 Variables 70 4.3 Constants 99 4.4 Chapter Summary 104 Chapter 4 Lab 105 Chapter 5: Operators 1075.1 About PHP Operators and Expressions 107 5.2 Chapter Summary 145 Chapter 5 Lab 146 Chapter 6: Strings 1496.1 What Is a String? 149 6.2 String Functions 155 6.3 Other String Functions 214 6.4 Chapter Summary 218 Chapter 6 Lab 219 Chapter 7: Conditionals and Loops 2217.1 Control Structures, Blocks, and Compound Statements 221 7.2 Loops 232 7.3 Chapter Summary 243 Chapter 7 Lab 244 Chapter 8: Arrays 2478.1 What Is an Array? 247 8.2 Modifying Arrays (Unsetting, Deleting, Adding, and Changing Elements) 310 8.3 Chapter Summary 335 Chapter 8 Lab 336 Chapter 9: User-Defined Functions 3379.1 What Is a Function? 337 9.2 Chapter Summary 376 Chapter 9 Lab 377 Chapter 10: More on PHP Forms 37910.1 Introduction 379 10.2 Review of HTML Forms 379 10.3 PHP and Forms 390 10.4 Chapter Summary 438 Chapter 10 Lab 439 Chapter 11: Files and Directories 44111.1 Files 441 11.2 The Web Server, PHP, and Permissions 446 11.3 Directories 483 11.4 Managing Content with Include Files 487 11.5 Chapter Summary 494 Chapter 12: Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching 49712.1 What Is a Regular Expression? 497 12.2 Pattern-Matching Functions 499 12.3 Chapter Summary 565 Chapter 12 Lab 566 Chapter 13: Introduction to MySQL 56713.1 About Databases 567 13.2 The Anatomy of a Relational Database 570 13.3 Connecting to the Database 575 13.4 The MySQL Privilege System 582 13.5 Chapter Summary 593 Chapter 14: SQL Language Tutorial 59514.1 What Is SQL? 595 14.2 SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) 603 14.3 SQL Data Definition Language 620 14.4 SQL Functions 633 14.5 Chapter Summary 642 Chapter 14 Lab 643 Chapter 15: PHP and MySQL Integration 64715.1 Introduction 647 15.2 The Guest Book Example 663 15.3 Chapter Summary 671 Chapter 15 Lab 671 Chapter 16: Cookies and Sessions 67316.1 What Is Stateless? 673 16.2 What Are Cookies? 673 16.3 PHP and Cookies 677 16.4 What Is a Session? 694 16.5 Chapter Summary 736 Chapter 16 Lab 738 Chapter 17: Objects 73917.1 What Are Objects? 739 17.2 Working with Classes 741 17.3 Some PHP 5 Object Features 772 17.4 Chapter Summary 780 Chapter 17 Lab 781 Appendix A: Building an Art Gallery 783A.1 Project Overview 783 A.2 The Public and the Private 783 A.3 Creating the Web Site 785 A.4 Installing the Art Gallery 805 A.5 Conclusion 808 Appendix B: PHP and E-Mail 809B.1 The Mail Server 809 B.2 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) 810 B.3 Runtime Configuration Options 810 B.4 The mail() Function 811 B.5 Sending a Simple E-Mail Message 811 B.6 Example: Sending an HTML Message 813 Appendix C: PHP and Date/Time 819C.1 Formatting Dates and Times 819 C.2 Getting the Timestamp 824 C.3 Getting the Date and Time 829 Appendix D: Security and Debugging 833D.1 About Security 833 D.2 Securing PHP and MySQL 834 D.3 Debugging 841 Appendix E: Installation Procedures 849E.1 About Web Servers 849 E.2 Installing Apache on Windows 849 E.3 Installing PHP on Windows 850 E.4 Installing PHP on Linux/UNIX 851 E.5 Installing PHP on Mac OS X 851 E.6 Configuring Apache to use PHP Module (All Platforms) 851 E.7 Configuring php.ini (All Platforms) 853 E.8 Installing MySQL on Windows 854 E.9 Installing MySQL on Linux/UNIX 854 E.10 Installing MySQL on Mac OS X 854 E.11 Read the Manual 854 Index 855