D.Lane, H.E.Williams.Web Database Application with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition. Copyright 2004, O’Reilly Media, Inc. - 816 p.
This book gives you the background and tools to do the job safely and reliably. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, Second Edition thoroughly reflects the needs of real-world applications. It goes into detail on such practical issues as validating input (do you know what a proper credit card number looks like? ), logging in users, and using templates to give your dynamic web pages a standard look. This new edition has been redesigned around the rich offerings of PEAR. Several of these, including the Template package and the database-independent query API, are fully integrated into examples and thoroughly described in the text.
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Database Applications and the Web.
Chapter.
The PHP Scripting Language.
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Arrays, Strings, and Advanced Data Manipulation in PHP.