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Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutesby Chris Newman Download Book If you are the author or the publisher, and would like to link to your site here, please contact us. About Book Book Description Are you one of those people who think there isn't anything substantial that you can do in only 10 minutes? Think again. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes is a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building dynamic websites using PHP. Broken into 10 minute lessons, you will gain a rapid working knowledge of PHP 5 and be able to immediately put that knowledge to use in practical applications. Who ever would have thought there was so much you could do in just 10 minutes! From the Back Cover Are you one of those people who think there isn't anything substantial that you can do in only 10 minutes? Think again. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes is a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building dynamic websites using PHP. Broken into 10 minute lessons, you will gain a rapid working knowledge of PHP 5 and be able to immediately put that knowledge to use in practical applications. Who ever would have thought there was so much you could do in just 10 minutes! About the Author Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 MinutesAbout the Author Chris Newman is a consultant programmer specializing in the development of custom web-based database applications to a loyal international client base. A graduate of Keele University, Chris lives in Stoke-on-Trent, England, where he runs Lightwood Consultancy Ltd., the company he founded in 1999 to further his interest in Internet technology. Lightwood operates web hosting services under the DataSnake brand and is proud to be one of the first hosting companies to offer and support SQLite in addition to PHP as a standard feature on all accounts. More information on Lightwood Consultancy Ltd. can be found at http://www.lightwood.net, and Chris can be contacted at chris@lightwood.net. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction: Welcome to PHPThis book is about PHP, one of the most popular web scripting languages around. It is a book for busy people. Each lesson takes just 10 minutes to work through, so if you have wanted to learn PHP for a while but have never really had the chance, don't put it off any longer! Who This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at those who want to learn PHP, even if they don't have any previous programming or scripting experience. You can even use this book to learn PHP as a first programming language if you do not have any previous experience. If you have some previous programming experience but have not written for the web before, you can use this book to learn about the PHP language and how to apply programming techniques to the web environment. This book does not teach you HTML. Although knowledge of HTML is not a prerequisite, having published web pages in the past will be an advantageeven if you do not usually hand-code HTML. How This Book Is OrganizedThis book is organized into five parts. Part I: PHP FoundationsThe lessons in Part I introduce the basic building blocks of the PHP language:
Part II: Working with DataThe lessons in Part II examine in more detail the different types of data that can be manipulated by PHP:
Part III: The Web EnvironmentThe lessons in Part III deal with using PHP specifically in the web environment:
Part IV: Using Other Services from PHPPart IV looks at how PHP can communicate with external programs and services:
Part V: Configuring and Extending PHPThe final part of the book deals with PHP administration:
Versions of Software CoveredAt the time of writing, the current version of PHP is PHP 5.0.3. Unless otherwise stated, all code examples in this book will work with PHP 4.1.0 and higher. Conventions Used in This BookThis book uses different typefaces to differentiate between code and regular English, and also to help you identify important concepts. Text that you type and text that should appear on your screen is presented in monospace type. It will look like this to mimic the way text looks on your screen. Placeholders for variables and expressions appear in monospace italic font. You should replace the placeholder with the specific value it represents.
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