PHP5 and MySQL Bible

Welcome to the PHP5 and MySQL Bible Web site!

The book is a comprehensive guide to the programming language built by Web developers for Web developers; plus the Internet's leading Open Source database. Millions of Web sites rely on PHP for server-side dynamic content generation, from the smallest personal home page to behemoths like Yahoo!

Part I gives an introduction to many basic language features and how to use them. By the end of Part I, you should be able to write a simple PHP-enabled HTML page. Part II introduces MySQL, the lightweight SQL database that can be licensed under the GPL. By the end of Part II, you should be able to write a simple database-driven Web page.

Part III introduces advanced techniques that will be helpful to the intermediate developer as he or she builds skills. These include writing good functions, configuration, security, exceptions and error handling, debugging, and code style.

PHP is renowned for being “glue” that helps you work with numerous external libraries and services. In Part IV, we dig into the specifics of working with PHP and Oracle, e-mail, JavaScript, Web services, and several other standards, programming languages, libraries, and services.

In Part V of the PHP5 and MySQL Bible, we give complete case studies for common tasks such as a rating system, user authentication, and creating charts on the fly. Finally, we offer appendices with special specific tips on learning PHP if you're coming from a background in HTML, Perl, or C programming.

Throughout the book, our emphasis is on helping you think through programming problems and understand architecture. However, we also include numerous code examples throughout the book, which can be downloaded from this site.

Download the example files.

The authors' Web site can be found at www.troutworks.com/phpbook.