Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5, 4th Edition

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

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. Form Handling
Chapter 12. Cookies, Sessions, and Authentication
Chapter 13. Exploring JavaScript
Chapter 14. Expressions and Control Flow in JavaScript
Chapter 15. JavaScript Functions, Objects, and Arrays
Chapter 16. JavaScript and PHP Validation and Error Handling
Chapter 17. Using Ajax
Chapter 18. Introduction to CSS
Chapter 19. Advanced CSS with CSS3
Chapter 20. Accessing CSS from JavaScript
Chapter 21. Introduction to jQuery
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
Appendix E. jQuery Selectors, Objects, and Methods