PHP & MySQL Everyday Apps for Dummies
Chapter One
Building Your Application
In This Chapter
* Understanding PHP and MySQL versions
* Installing applications files from the CD
* Setting up your programming environment
* Customizing the applications in the book
* Planning your application
You know PHP. Or at least you've been introduced and have spent some
quality time together. You know PHP syntax, control structures, and some
built-in functions. You can display a form and retrieve the information from it.
You can interact with a database. You have the basics down.
Or, perhaps you're an expert programmer in another language. You've been
using C for years. You know the basics of programming. You don't know
exactly how the familiar programming features are implemented in PHP, but
you believe you can understand quickly from seeing examples. After all, a for
loop is a for loop and an if statement is an if statement. Other programmers
have told you how easy PHP is and how similar it is to C.
Now, you want to write a practical application. Yo ... read full excerpt from PHP & MySQL & Everyday Apps For Dummies ebook
