Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With Jquery, CSS & HTML5 / Robin Nixon

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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.

Annotation Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, youll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of todays 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, youll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site, using XAMPP or any development stack you choose. Learn PHP in-depth, along with the basics of object-oriented programmingExplore MySQL, from database structure to complex queriesUse the MySQLi Extension, PHPs improved MySQL interfaceCreate dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the userManage cookies and sessions, and maintain a high level of securityMaster the JavaScript languageand enhance it with jQueryUse Ajax calls for background browser/server communicationAcquire CSS2 and CSS3 skills for professionally styling your web pagesImplement all of the new HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas.