Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS

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 together

Introduction to dynamic web content -- Setting up a development server -- Introduction to PHP -- Expressions and control flow in PHP -- PHP functions and objects -- PHP arrays -- Practical PHP -- Introduction to MySQL -- Mastering MySQL -- Accessing MySQL using PHP -- From handling -- Cookies, sessions, and authentication -- Exploring JavaScript -- Expressions and control flow in JavaScript -- JavaScript functions, objects, and arrays -- JavaScript and PHP validation and error handling -- Using Ajax -- Introduction to CSS -- Advanced CSS with CSS3 -- Accessing CSS from JavaScript -- Bringing it all together.