Description
Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, youll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of todays 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, youll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site, using XAMPP or any development stack you choose.
- Learn PHP in-depth, along with the basics of object-oriented programming
- Explore MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
- Use the MySQLi Extension, PHPs 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 languageand enhance it with jQuery
- Use Ajax calls for background browser/server communication
- Acquire CSS2 and CSS3 skills for professionally styling your web pages
- Implement all of the new HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas
About the Author
Robin Nixon?has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows. He has also worked full time for one of Britain’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.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 24 HTML5 Audio and Video
Chapter 25 Other HTML5 Features
Chapter 26 Bringing It All Together
Author: ROBIN NIXON
Publisher: ROBIN NIXON
ISBN-13: 9.78935E+12
Language: ENGLISH
Binding: PAPERBACK
No. Of Pages: 774
Country of Origin: India
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