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Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (edition 2012)

by Robin Nixon

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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… (more)
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Title:Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
Authors:Robin Nixon
Info:O'Reilly Media (2012), Edition: 2, Paperback, 586 pages
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A nice introduction to the basics of dynamic web development including essentials in PHP, MySQL databases and scripting with JavaScript. Everything is explained in quite a lot of detail and no prior knowledge of programming is assumed (although it is good to be familiar with the web basics such as HTML).

However I feel like the usefulness of this book is somewhat limited as it is improbable that a reader would be using pure PHP and SQL in a real-life situation to come up with a dynamic web page - rather most likely these would be used within the context of a framework or a CMS. I think it would have benefitted the book if the author explained how these concepts could be used to create a dynamic framework and gave some suggestions of frameworks to look into. The book is good for understanding the bare bones of classic dynamic websites though.

The CSS section seems to be bolted on for the sake of completeness and I don't fully understand the need for it in the context of this book. This information does not add anything essential to the concepts of dynamic web pages and it could be easily obtained elsewhere.

At the end of the book there is a chapter which ties in all the covered material together in a final project. ( )
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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

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