Dont spend your time wading through manuals to learn PHP 5. Spend it doing what you do bestcreating web pages! With "PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development" you can get up and running with PHP 5, Apache, and MySQL with ease. By the time youre finished, youll be able to display dynamic content, build your own contact management system, create custom reports, work with XML, and much more. Less time, less effort, more results!
Chapter 1 Installing and configuring MySQL
Chapter 2 Installing Apache
Chapter 3 Installing PHP
Chapter 4 Mixing PHP and HTML
Chapter 5 Introducing variables and operators
Chapter 6 Using PHP variables
Chapter 7 Displaying dynamic content
Chapter 8 Sending E-mail
Chapter 9 Using your file system
Chapter 10 Unloading files to your website
Chapter 11 Establishing a connection and poking around
Chapter 12 Creating a database table
Chapter 13 Inserting data into the table
Chapter 14 Selecting and displaying data
Chapter 15 Database-driven user authentication
Chapter 16 Using cookies
Chapter 17 Session basics
Chapter 18 Planning your system
Chapter 19 Adding contacts
Chapter 20 Modifying contacts
Chapter 21 Deleting contacts
Chapter 22 Working with contacts
Chapter 23 Managing a simple mailing list
Chapter 24 Creating custom logs and reports
Chapter 25 Working with XML
App. A Additional configuration options
App. B Basic PHP language reference
App. C Writing your own functions and objects
App. D Database normalization and SQL reference
App. E Using SQLite
App. F Getting help
About the Author
Julie Meloni is the Technical Director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA. She's been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish. She is the author of "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition" (Premier Press, 193184187X).