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Learn how to build interactive, data-driven websites—even if you don’t have any previous programming experience. If you know how to build static sites with HTML, this popular guide will help you tackle dynamic web programming. You’ll get a thorough grounding in today’s core open source technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS.

Explore each technology separately, learn how to combine them, and pick up valuable web programming concepts along the way, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. This book provides review questions in each chapter to help you apply what you’ve learned.

    Learn PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming
    Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
    Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
    Learn JavaScript fundamentals, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
    Pick up CSS basics for formatting and styling your web pages
    Turn your website into a highly dynamic environment with Ajax calls
    Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications
    Explore a working example that brings all of the ingredients together


A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
By Robin Nixon
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: August 2012
Pages: 586