Robin Nixon's PHP Crash Course: Learn PHP in 14 easy lectures

Robin Nixon

ISBN 10: 0956895646 / ISBN 13: 9780956895646

Published by Nixon Publishing, 2012

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Synopsis:

If you know HTML and/or CSS and want to take your skills to the next level, or even if you are a complete web novice, you really need to learn PHP. Not only is it available free either pre-installed or ready-to-install on almost all web servers, it's also extremely fast and flexible too.

Long gone are the days when you had to compile unwieldy C programs in order to add dynamic functionality to websites, because PHP provides everything you need with simple commands you embed in your web pages (in much the same way you do with JavaScript). What's more, PHP is easy. If you've ever tried to learn it and been put off by a plethora of jargon and technical mumbo-jumbo then you're in for a real treat, because Robin Nixon's Crash Courses have helped tens of thousands of people learn the new skills they need.

From the top-selling author of Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, and starting from the ground up with no assumption of prior knowledge, every aspect of PHP is explained in this book, in logical order with plenty of simple examples, clear explanations, informative figures, and advice on how best to use the new things you learn. If you want to learn PHP up to a solid intermediate level, this book will teach you all you need to know, without recourse to other books and materials. Plus all the examples are free to download from the companion website, so you won't have to type them in to follow along and try them out for yourself.

This course features the following lectures:

1. Introduction to PHP
2. Incorporating PHP Code Into a Web Page
3. PHP Language Syntax
4. PHP Operators
5. PHP Arrays
6. Multi-dimensional Arrays
7. The PHP Array Functions
8. Controlling Program Flow
9. Looping Sections of Code
10. PHP Functions
11. PHP Objects
12. Errors and Expressions
13. Web Forms and Security
14. Advanced PHP

Reasons why you will learn all you need from this course:

• No assumption is made of previous knowledge.
• Every new concept is explained in logical order.
• Fully-tested examples are provided throughout.
• Each lecture features several notes offering extra, handy advice.
• The examples can all be downloaded free from the companion website.

About the Author: Robin Nixon has been a writer for 30 years, producing in excess of 500 articles for many of the UK's top magazines, and has authored over 16 books. He started his writing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of their residential homes, evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology, and writing supporting documentation and articles for a selection of national publications.

After this Robin joined a large magazine publisher, where he held a variety of different editorial positions, before leaving to become a self-employed writer, and later branching out into developing websites (including the world's first licensed Internet radio station). In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.

Robin and his family have relocated to the USA twice, once to run a web design company in California, and then again to set up an English Tearoom in Texas. In between times they ran several successful pubs, bed and breakfasts and nightclubs in England. But in recent years Robin has returned to writing, focusing on motivation and personal improvement, while still continuing to produce his popular series of books on computing, many of which have now been translated into multiple languages.

Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer) - between them they also foster three disabled children.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Robin Nixon's PHP Crash Course: Learn PHP in...
Publisher: Nixon Publishing
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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