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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript : with jQuery, CSS & HTML5
Title:
Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript : with jQuery, CSS & HTML5
ISBN:
9781491918661

9780596157135

9780596803605
Edition:
Fourth edition.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 774 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction to dynamic web content -- Setting up a development server -- Introduction to PHP -- Expressions and control flow in PHP -- PHP functions and objects -- PHP arrays -- Practical PHP -- Introduction to MySQL -- Mastering MySQL -- Accessing MySQL using PHP -- Form handling -- Cookies, sessions, and authentication -- Exploring JavaScript -- Expressions and control flow in JavaScript -- JavaScript functions, objects, and arrays -- JavaScript and PHP validation and error handling -- Using Ajax -- Introduction to CSS -- Advanced CSS with CSS3 -- Accessing CSS from JavaScript -- Introduction to jQuery -- Introduction to HTML5 -- The HTML5 canvas -- HTML5 audio and video -- Other HTML5 features -- Bringing it all together.
Summary:
"Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you only have basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of today's core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and HTML5. Explore each technology separately, learn how to use them together, and pick up valuable web programming practices along the way. At the end of the book, you'll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site, using XAMPP or any development stack of your choice. Learn PHP in-depth, along with the basics of object-oriented programming Explore MySQL, from database structure to complex queries Use the MySQLi Extension, PHP's improved MySQL interface Create dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the user Manage cookies and sessions, and maintain a high level of security Master the JavaScript language - and enhance it with jQuery Use Ajax calls for background browser/server communication Acquire CSS2 & CSS3 skills for professionally styling your web pages Implement all the new HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas." [from the publisher].