Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 - Softcover

Nixon, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491918667 ISBN 13: 9781491918661

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2015

Synopsis

The fully revised, updated and extended 4th edition of the hugely popular web development book - includes CSS, HTML5, jQuery and the mysqli extension.

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you only have basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of today's 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, you'll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site, using XAMPP or any development stack of your choice.

• Learn PHP in-depth, along with the basics of object-oriented programming
• Explore MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
• Use the mysqli Extension, PHP's improved MySQL interface
• Create dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the user
• Manage cookies and sessions, and maintain a high level of security
• Master the JavaScript language--and enhance it with jQuery
• Use Ajax calls for background browser/server communication
• Acquire CSS2 & CSS3 skills for professionally styling your web pages
• Implement all the new HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas

About this title

Book Description

With jQuery, CSS & HTML5

From the Author

In the first edition of this book I took you from first steps, without assuming any prior knowledge other than basic HTML (and maybe some CSS), through the use of PHP, MySQL and JavaScript, and along the way pointed out the shortcuts and pitfalls I have discovered, to give you the head start I didn't have. Thankfully the book was extremely well received, and various editions have remained at the top of the web development book charts for over five years. In fact there have been three full editions and some edition updates, as I ensure the book is kept fully up-to-date, and add information on the latest and most current web development technologies.

In the previous two editions I added coverage of CSS, and then HTML5, and now this fourth edition comes with a comprehensive jQuery primer, so you can take your JavaScript programming to the next level. I have also removed all coverage of the outdated mysql extension, and replaced it with the newer and more efficient mysqli. I also updated all the errata and added many reader suggestions. But with so many technologies now in the book, I decided not to keep adding to its title. Instead I've reverted to the original title of Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, and the extra technologies are now mentioned in the subtitle:With jQuery, CSS & HTML5.

So I hope you'll find the book even more of a one-stop resource than ever, and that you also find it easy to read and understand (and enjoyable too). And, as always, I welcome any comments or questions you may have via the book's website at lpmj.net, and always do my best to provide assistance if you need it.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1491918667
• ISBN 13: 9781491918661
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 810