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Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL

by Kevin Yank
(Sitepoint Books)

Database Driven Website with PHP and MySQL

Link to Sitepoint book here


What makes this book stand out from the many books out today about using MySQL and PHP for a database-driven website? While it is a beginner's book, it does not hesitate covering advanced topics that webmasters will need to know.

This is important because anyone creating a website today should know how to add database functionality to it, vastly multiplying its usefullness and scope. Web developers today with a knowledge of PHP and MySQL are worth substantially more for design projects.

Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database driven Website using PHP & MySQL.

At around 300 pages, this book is an easy read. It is written in a clear tutorial format that’s easy to understand. This is another area where the book shines, as opposed to having to wade through dry how-to texts. Books like this are a breath of fresh air.

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

Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL. These guides include MySQL syntax, MySQL functions, MySQL column types and all the PHP functions that work with MySQL.

The book also includes download access to all the code samples used throughout the book so readers can adapt them to their own custom Web solutions.

If you’ve never built a database driven Website and you’re looking go beyond the limitations of a static site, this book will get you started in no time.

If you’ve already built database driven Websites, the extensive PHP/MySQL reference guides included ensure this book stays an extremely handy desk reference.

Various points that Kevin Yank's book teaches:

  • Build a working Content Management System
  • Add, edit and delete Web content without using HTML
  • Set up automatic backups of your database
  • Increase your database security
  • Optimize the loading time of your Website
  • Build an ecommerce shopping cart
  • Automatically send email on triggered events
  • Handle file uploads using HTML forms
  • Build a Web-based file repository or photo gallery
  • Utilize sessions and cookies to track site visitors
  • Master MySQL database administration
  • Create rich, sophisticated database driven Websites that both you and your clients will be happy with.
To read more about the book, view its Table of Contents, and download sample chapters, click here.

Kevin Yank is the Technical Content Director for SitePoint.com, author of many well received tutorials and articles, and editor of the SitePoint Tech Times, an extremely popular technically-oriented email newsletter for Web Developers.

-Lucas Everidge

Edition: 2nd Edition, 295 pages, (March, 2003)

Site Point Book Link Here