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PHP & MySQL are the most widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today. As a Web developer you can demand a lot more $$$ for your time if you can master PHP & MySQL. Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database driven Website using PHP & MySQL. This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live Web-based content management system. While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL which include: MySQL Syntax MySQL Functions MySQL Column Types, and PHP Functions for working with MySQL, and more. Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL also includes download access to all the code samples used throughout the book so you can adapt them to your own custom Web solutions. About the Author Kevin Yank started developing Websites in 1995, long before graduating from McGill University with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering. Today, Kevin is the Technical Business Director for SitePoint, editor of the SitePoint Tech Times and a highly respected author. |