Codin' for the Web is a book about PHP and mySQL. If you have never done any back-end (server-side) programming before, but have some experience with HTML and CSS, then this book will show you how to build interactive Web sites using PHP, the most popular programming language on the Web, and the mySQL database.
Using the techniques in Codin', you can take user input from forms, validate that data to ensure it is correctly formatted and free of malicious code, and store it on your Web server as text files or in a database.
You will learn how to create Sign Up and Sign In processes so you can create areas of your site that are only available to registered members.
Codin' also shows how to build a simple content management system so that you, and others if you wish, can add and edit the content on the Web sites you build without having to touch the code.
The ready-to-use code for a complete Web site using all these techniques is available in the download files and is fully explained in Codin'.
