PHP MySQL Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution

PHP MySQL Website Programming shows the development process for a web site using a specific set of technologies: the Apache web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. It takes the reader through the construction of a complete application driven site from design to deployment.

Each chapter in the book identifies a task to be accomplished that is necessary for the construction of the site. It suggests a way to go about the required programming, and finally implements a solution based on the discussion. The ideas that are presented and the code that is written are indicative of the way real world tasks are being completed.

Chris Lea Chris Lea is, on his better days, a developer. He started out on the East Coast, going to school at UNC-CH and getting a BS in Physics with Highest Honors and Distinction. Fortunately, he managed to escape graduate school and made it to sunny Los Angeles, which is where he currently spends most of his time. If you track him down, it's likely that he will be playing around with Linux, Apache, PHP, and other related bits of software. For fun he sees his friends, plays his guitar, and harasses Mike Buzzard over instant messenger.Mike Buzzard Mike Buzzard is a self-taught applications developer currently residing in San Francisco, CA. He is a partner member of Cuban Council, a freelance collective of programmers and designers based in the US and Denmark. Mike spends most of his time building web-based software solutions utilizing a wide array of languages, platforms and databases for the entertainment industry as well as the online design community world-wide. Mike's work history ranges from software development companies to the architecture and engineering services where his efforts have always been focused toward online applications development. In his spare time, Mike occasionally guest lectures at Stanford University where he instructs students in PHP and MySQL for solving course projects involving art, product design and communications.

Jessey White-Cinis Jessey White-Cinis is a freelance contractor currently living in Los Angeles, CA. His expertise lies primarily in core level web programming and development, however, he also has an extensive background in *NIX system administration. Jessey began his career in Kansas as a developer for OneMain.com (now Earthlink) at the age of seventeen. At the age of nineteen, Jessey moved back to his hometown of Los Angeles to work as a webmaster, developer and system administrator for Epitaph Records. Now twenty-one, Jessey enjoys working on a wide variety of web development projects while maintaining close professional relationships with his former employers. In his 'free time', Jessey enjoys traveling, mountain biking and writing and producing his own music.

Dilip Thomas Dilip Thomas hails from the sleepy little town of Cochin, set in God 's own country. He is employed full time with Wrox Press, as a Content Architect on their Open Source Editorial and Research group Saltmarch, and has been instrumental in shaping the PHP line of books for Wrox. He is committed to the PHP community, and much of his thrill comes from peering into that community from a philosophical perspective. He first got hooked onto Open Source in his sophomore days in college, and has been playing the role of a technology evangeliser ever since. His interests also lie in the Apache Jakarta projects and Open Standards technology in general. Before work with Wrox Press came calling, he was spotted organizing bungee jumping shows to flustered audiences in his favorite city of Bangalore. Dilip can be reached via e mail: dilipt@graffiti.net.