PHP and MySQL For Dummies
Chapter One
Developing a Web Database
Application
In This Chapter
* Planning your application
* Selecting and organizing your data
* Designing your database
* Overview of building your database
* Overview of writing your application programs
Developing a Web database application involves more than just storing
data in MySQL databases and typing in PHP programs. Development
has to start with planning. Building the application pieces comes after planning.
The development steps are
1. Develop a plan, listing the tasks that your application will perform.
2. Design the database needed to support your application tasks.
3. Build the MySQL database, based on the database design.
4. Write the PHP programs that perform the application tasks.
I discuss these steps in detail in this chapter.
Planning Your Web Database
Application
Before you ever put finger to keyboard to write a PHP program, you need to
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