Sams - Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24
Hours, Third Edition.

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Sams
Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third
Edition by Matt Zandstra
ISBN: 0-672-32619-1,
500 Pages, December
2003

This is a book
about PHP, arguably the most popular
Web scripting language in the world. It
is also a book about programming. In the space available, it
is neither possible to create a complete guide to programming
in PHP nor to cover every function and
technique PHP offers. Nevertheless,
whether you are an experienced programmer consi-dering a move
to PHP or a newcomer to scripting, the
steps in this book should provide enough information to get
your journey off to a good start.

This
book will take you from the first principles through to a good
working knowledge of the PHP
programming language. No prior experience of programming is
assumed, although if you have worked with a language such as
C or Perl in the
past, you will find the going much easier.


PHP is a
Web programming language. To get the most
from this book, you should have some understanding of the
World Wide Web and of
HTML in particular. If you are just starting
out, you will still be able to use this book, although you
should consider acquiring an HTML
tutorial. If you are comfortable creating basic documents and
can build a basic HTML table, you will
be fine.


PHP is designed to integrate well with
databases. Some of the examples in this book are written to
work with SQL databases. We include a
short introduction to SQL, but if you
intend to use PHP to work with
databases, you might want to spend some time reading up on the
subject. Numerous introductory SQL
tutorials are available online. If you intend to work with a
database other than MySQL, many of the
examples in this book will be relatively easy to reproduce
with the equivalent PHP functions
designed to query your database.




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