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 f ... read full excerpt from PHP & MySQL & Everyday Apps For Dummies ebook