About the book
Luke Welling and Laura Thomson show how to combine the PHP scripting language with the MySQL database to build interactive, database-driven web applications. The book teaches PHP fundamentals, MySQL setup and use, and the ways PHP code communicates with the database and the server, keeping real-world use in view even in the early chapters. Security and authentication are treated as they apply to a working website, and JavaScript is introduced to link front-end and back-end code. A final part walks through designing, planning and building several projects, among them a shopping cart, web-based email, social media integration, and user authentication with personalization. The fifth edition covers PHP 5.6 and 7 and recent MySQL releases.
Freelance software engineer Scott Johnson credited the book with teaching him when an unexpected software engineering job came his way after the dot com crash, following years spent mostly in product management.
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Scott Johnson (Freelance Software Engineer)
I spent a ton of years doing mostly product management as opposed to software engineering (what I do now). Although I had written code and managed engineers, I wasn't really a hands on software engineer. In the wake of the dot com crisis, when everyone was unemployed, when an unexpected software engineering gig landed on me, the book PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson literally taught me database backed web development. Oddly enough, two years later, I ended up marrying one of the book's editors. If I hadn't read that book, I wouldn't have ended up speaking at the PHP conference where I met my wife and I would not be married to her (or have my kids). That one book took me down the Open Source path and while I've changed languages (Ruby / Rails), it literally changed every single aspect of my life.
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