Topic: PHP AND MYSQL FOR DUMMIES.

About This Book
Think of this book as your friendly guide to building a Web database application.
This book is designed as a reference, not as a tutorial, so you don’t have
to read this book from cover to cover, unless you want to. You can start reading
at any point in the book — In Chapter 1, Chapter 9, wherever. I divide the
task of building a Web database application into manageable chunks of information,
so check out the table of contents and locate the topic that you’re
interested in. If you need to know information from another chapter to understand
the chapter you’re reading, I reference that chapter number.
Here’s a sample of the topics that I discuss in this book:


Building and using a MySQL database


Adding PHP to HTML files


Using the features of the PHP language


Using HTML forms to collect information from users


Showing information from a database in a Web page


Storing information in a database




Conventions Used in This Book

This book includes many examples of PHP programming statements, MySQL
statements, or HTML. Such statements in this book are shown in a different
typeface that looks like the following line:

A PHP program statement

In addition, snippets or key terms of PHP, MySQL, and HTML are sometimes
shown in the text of a paragraph. When they are, the special text in the paragraph
is also shown in the example typeface, different than the paragraph
typeface. For instance, this text is an example of a PHP statement, showing
the exact text, within the paragraph text.

In examples, you will often see some words in italic. Italicized words are general
types that need to be replaced with the specific name appropriate for
your data. For instance, when you see an example like the following

SELECT field1,field2 FROM tablename
you know that field1, field2, and tablename need to be replaced with real
names because they are in italic. When you use this statement in your program,
you might use it in the following form:
SELECT name,age FROM Customer

In addition, you might see three dots (...) following a list in an example line.
You don’t need to type the three dots. The three dots just mean that you can
have as many items in the list as you want. For instance, when you see the
following line

SELECT field1,field2,... FROM tablename
you don’t need to include the three dots in the statement. The three dots just
mean that your list of fields can be longer than two. It means you can go on
with field3, field4, and so forth. For example, your statement might be
SELECT name,age,height,shoesize FROM Customer

From time to time, you’ll also see some things in bold type. Pay attention to
these; they either indicate something I want you to see or something that you
need to type in.

About This Book
Think of this book as your friendly guide to building a Web database application.
This book is designed as a reference, not as a tutorial, so you don’t have
to read this book from cover to cover, unless you want to. You can start reading
at any point in the book — In Chapter 1, Chapter 9, wherever. I divide the
task of building a Web database application into manageable chunks of information,
so check out the table of contents and locate the topic that you’re
interested in. If you need to know information from another chapter to understand
the chapter you’re reading, I reference that chapter number.
Here’s a sample of the topics that I discuss in this book:


Building and using a MySQL database


Adding PHP to HTML files


Using the features of the PHP language


Using HTML forms to collect information from users


Showing information from a database in a Web page


Storing information in a database




Conventions Used in This Book

This book includes many examples of PHP programming statements, MySQL
statements, or HTML. Such statements in this book are shown in a different
typeface that looks like the following line:

A PHP program statement

In addition, snippets or key terms of PHP, MySQL, and HTML are sometimes
shown in the text of a paragraph. When they are, the special text in the paragraph
is also shown in the example typeface, different than the paragraph
typeface. For instance, this text is an example of a PHP statement, showing
the exact text, within the paragraph text.

In examples, you will often see some words in italic. Italicized words are general
types that need to be replaced with the specific name appropriate for
your data. For instance, when you see an example like the following

SELECT field1,field2 FROM tablename
you know that field1, field2, and tablename need to be replaced with real
names because they are in italic. When you use this statement in your program,
you might use it in the following form:
SELECT name,age FROM Customer

In addition, you might see three dots (...) following a list in an example line.
You don’t need to type the three dots. The three dots just mean that you can
have as many items in the list as you want. For instance, when you see the
following line

SELECT field1,field2,... FROM tablename
you don’t need to include the three dots in the statement. The three dots just
mean that your list of fields can be longer than two. It means you can go on
with field3, field4, and so forth. For example, your statement might be
SELECT name,age,height,shoesize FROM Customer

From time to time, you’ll also see some things in bold type. Pay attention to
these; they either indicate something I want you to see or something that you
need to type in.

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