PHP & MySQL – Novice to Ninja 5e by Kevin Yank

PHP & MySQL – Novice to Ninja 5e by Kevin Yank

PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully-functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system.

While this is essentially a beginner's book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL that include:

• MySQL syntax
• MySQL functions
• MysQL column types
• PHP functions for working with MySQL

Kevin Yank is a well-known web developer around the world. Kevin is the Technical Director of sitepoint.com and editor of the popular SitePoint Tech Times weekly when he isn't authoring best books. Build Your Own Database Driven Website With PHP & MySQL (SitePoint) and Just JavaScript (SitePoint) are two of Kevin's author credits.