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<i>PHP 5 in easy steps</i> instructs how to create exciting interactive web pages using the latest major release of the popular PHP scripting language. PHP allows data to be easily exchanged between a web browser and a web server — both on the Windows platform and on Unix-based platforms, such as Linux. Exciting chapters, with complete code examples, illustrate the major features of the PHP language and screenshots depict the actual output from each example script. You are also introduced to MySQL databases and shown, by example, how PHP can interact with databases to store user input, and to retrieve stored data for delivery to a web browser as components of a web page.<br> <br> <i>PHP 5 in easy steps</i> begins by explaining how to download and install the free Apache web server, the free MySQL database server, and the free PHP 5 interpreter. This allows you to establish an environment in which to run PHP scripts on your own computer. Examples show how PHP scripts can generate dynamic content, manipulate files, store user-data, send email, authenticate log-in attempts and communicate with databases. This book makes no assumption of previous knowledge of any programming or scripti

Author
Mike McGrath
Publisher
Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780760763315
Rating
3.6 / 5 (11 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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