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Summary of Contents of this Excerpt Introduction ................................................................................. 1 1. Installation ............................................................................... 7 2. Getting Started with MySQL ................................................ 35 3. Getting Started with PHP ..................................................... 49 4. Publishing MySQL Data on the Web ................................... 69
Summary of Additional Book Contents 5. Relational Database Design................................................... 85 6. A Content Management System ........................................... 99 7. Content Formatting and Submission .................................. 121 8. MySQL Administration ....................................................... 137 9. Advanced SQL ..................................................................... 153 10. Advanced PHP ................................................................... 169 11. Storing Binary Data in MySQL ........................................ 185 12. Cookies and Sessions in PHP............................................ 197 A. MySQL Syntax .................................................................... 211 B. MySQL Functions ............................................................... 233 C. MySQL Column Types ....................................................... 251 D. PHP Functions for Working with MySQL ........................ 261 Index......................................................................................... 273
Build Your Own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL by Kevin Yank
Build Your Own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL by Kevin Yank Copyright ' 2003 SitePoint Pty. Ltd. Editor: Georgina Laidlaw Cover Design: Julian Carroll Printing History: First Edition: August 2001 Second Edition: February 2003
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About the Author Kevin Yank is the Technical Business Director for SitePoint, author of numerous well received tutorials and articles, and editor of the SitePoint Tech Times, an extremely popular technically-oriented newsletter for Web developers. Before graduating from McGill University in Montreal with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Kevin was not only a budding Web developer himself, but also an active advisor for the Sausage Software Web Development Forums, and writer of several practical guides on advanced HTML and JavaScript. These days, when he's not discovering new technologies, writing books, or catching up on sleep, Kevin can be found helping other up-and-coming Web developers in the SitePoint Forums.
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To my parents, Cheryl and Richard, for making all this possible.
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