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Essential Skills—Made Easy!

Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.

Designed for Easy Learning:

  • Key Skills & Concepts—Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
  • Ask the Expert—Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
  • Try This—Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills
  • Notes—Extra information related to the topic being covered
  • Tips—Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
  • Cautions—Errors and pitfalls to avoid
  • Self-Tests—Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge
  • Annotated Syntax—Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated
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