Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5, 3rd Edition

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, CSS, and now HTML5.

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, CSS, JavaScript and HTML5 features
• Learn JavaScript fundamentals, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
• Pick up CSS and CSS3 basics for formatting and styling your web pages
• Find out how to manipulate CSS properties directly from JavaScript
• Turn your website into a highly dynamic environment with Ajax calls
• Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications
• Enhance your website with HTML5 audio, video and other multimedia and powerful features
• Build a working example that brings all of these ingredients together

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Dynamic Web Content
Chapter 2. Setting Up a Development Server
Chapter 3. Introduction to PHP
Chapter 4. Expressions and Control Flow in PHP
Chapter 5. PHP Functions and Objects
Chapter 6. PHP Arrays
Chapter 7. Practical PHP
Chapter 8. Introduction to MySQL
Chapter 9. Mastering MySQL
Chapter 10. Accessing MySQL Using PHP
Chapter 11. Using the mysqli Extension
Chapter 12. Form Handling
Chapter 13. Cookies, Sessions, and Authentication
Chapter 14. Exploring JavaScript
Chapter 15. Expressions and Control Flow in JavaScript
Chapter 16. JavaScript Functions, Objects, and Arrays
Chapter 17. JavaScript and PHP Validation and Error Handling
Chapter 18. Using Ajax
Chapter 19. Introduction to CSS
Chapter 20. Advanced CSS with CSS3
Chapter 21. Accessing CSS from JavaScript
Chapter 22. Introduction to HTML5
Chapter 23. The HTML5 Canvas
Chapter 24. HTML5 Audio and Video
Chapter 25. Other HTML5 Features
Chapter 26. Bringing It All Together

Appendix A. Solutions to the Chapter Questions
Appendix B. Online Resources
Appendix C. MySQL’s FULLTEXT Stopwords
Appendix D. MySQL Functions