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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL: Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites
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by Hugh Williams, David Lane
Hugh Williams
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL: Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites
816
by Hugh Williams, David Lane
Hugh Williams
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Overview
There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the background and tools to do the job safely and reliably. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, Second Edition thoroughly reflects the needs of real-world applications. It goes into detail on such practical issues as validating input (do you know what a proper credit card number looks like?), logging in users, and using templates to give your dynamic web pages a standard look. But this book goes even further. It shows how JavaScript and PHP can be used in tandem to make a user's experience faster and more pleasant. It shows the correct way to handle errors in user input so that a site looks professional. It introduces the vast collection of powerful tools available in the PEAR repository and shows how to use some of the most popular tools. Even while it serves as an introduction to new programmers, the book does not omit critical tasks that web sites require. For instance, every site that allows updates must handle the possibility of multiple users accessing data at the same time. This book explains how to solve the problem in detail with locking. Through a sophisticated sample applicationHugh and Dave's Wine Storeall the important techniques of dynamic content are introduced. Good design is emphasized, such as dividing logic from presentation. The book introduces PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 features, while providing techniques that can be used on older versions of the software that are still in widespread use. This new edition has been redesigned around the rich offerings of PEAR. Several of these, including the Template package and the database-independent query API, are fully integrated into examples and thoroughly described in the text. Topics include:
- Installation and configuration of Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Unix®, Windows®, and Mac OS® X systems
- Introductions to PHP, SQL, and MySQL administration
- Session management, including the use of a custom database for improved efficiency
- User input validation, security, and authentication
- The PEAR repository, plus details on the use of PEAR DB and Template classes
- Production of PDF reports
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780596005436 |
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Publisher: | O'Reilly Media, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 05/01/2004 |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 816 |
Product dimensions: | 9.10(w) x 10.92(h) x 1.44(d) |
About the Author
Hugh E. Williams is a software design engineer at Microsoft's Windows Live Search in Redmond, WA. Previously, he was the Associate Professor in Information Retrieval at RMIT Universityin Melbourne, Australia. He's published over 70 research papers and holds around 10 patents, mostly in the search engine area. When not at work Hugh likes to hang out with his family, exercise, watch Richmond play footy, and learn about baseball. Hugh has a PhD from RMIT University. His home page is http://hughwilliams.com.
Since the mid 1990s David Lane has worked as a software engineer and IT manager with the Multimedia Database Systems group at RMIT Universityin Melbourne, Australia. In that group he has helped to develop and commercialize the Structured Information Manager, a large-scale SGML/XML document repository and a high performance Web server. David has also worked with Australia's largest telecommunications company, Telstra, in areas as diverse as Satellite Communications, Human Factors Research, and Electronic Document Interchange (EDI). David has a Bachelor's degree in Applied Science (majoring in mathematics and computer science) from Swinburne University.
Since the mid 1990s David Lane has worked as a software engineer and IT manager with the Multimedia Database Systems group at RMIT Universityin Melbourne, Australia. In that group he has helped to develop and commercialize the Structured Information Manager, a large-scale SGML/XML document repository and a high performance Web server. David has also worked with Australia's largest telecommunications company, Telstra, in areas as diverse as Satellite Communications, Human Factors Research, and Electronic Document Interchange (EDI). David has a Bachelor's degree in Applied Science (majoring in mathematics and computer science) from Swinburne University.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Database Applications and the Web
- Chapter 2: The PHP Scripting Language
- Chapter 3: Arrays, Strings, and Advanced Data Manipulation in PHP
- Chapter 4: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 5
- Chapter 5: SQL and MySQL
- Chapter 6: Querying Web Databases
- Chapter 7: PEAR
- Chapter 8: Writing to Web Databases
- Chapter 9: Validation with PHP and JavaScript
- Chapter 10: Sessions
- Chapter 11: Authentication and Security
- Chapter 12: Errors, Debugging, and Deployment
- Chapter 13: Reporting
- Chapter 14: Advanced Features of Object-Oriented Programming in PHP 5
- Chapter 15: Advanced SQL
- Chapter 16: Hugh and Dave's Online Wines:A Case Study
- Chapter 17: Managing Customers
- Chapter 18: The Shopping Cart
- Chapter 19: Ordering and Shipping at the Online Winestore
- Chapter 20: Searching and Authentication in the Online Winestore
- Appendix A: Linux Installation Guide
- Appendix B: Microsoft Windows Installation Guide
- Appendix C: Mac OS X Installation Guide
- Appendix D: Web Protocols
- Appendix E: Modeling and Designing Relational Databases
- Appendix F: Managing Sessions in theDatabase Tier
- Appendix G: Resources
- Appendix H: The Improved MySQL Library
- Colophon
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