PHP and MySQL Web Development

Master todays best practices for succeeding with PHP 7 and MySQL 5.7 web database development! Long acknowledged as the clearest, most practical, and most down-to-earth guide to PHP/MySQL web development, the brand-new fifth edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development fully reflects the latest versions of PHP and MySQL. Maintaining the approach that has made this book so successful through, Luke Welling and Laura Thomson add extensive new coverage of security, cloud and mobile development, and using the PEAR repositorys massive resources. Part I offers a crash course in using PHP, including data storage/retrieval, arrays, strings, regular expressions, code reuse, objects, and error/exception handling. Next, Part II walks you through designing, creating, accessing, and programming MySQL databases. Part III turns to web application security, adding new information on web security risks, instructions on how to build a secure web application, and up-to-the-minute discussions of cryptography and implementing authentication in PHP and MySQL. A full section on advanced PHP techniques addresses everything from networking and filesystem interaction to internationalization and localization, generating images, and PHP frameworks and components. The authors conclude with step-by-step walkthroughs of several real-world projects from automated testing, to building user authentication and personalization, to building a web-based email service, to integrating with social media, to building web forums and shopping carts, and even to designing an API for your web applications. Contents at a Glance Part I Using PHP 1 PHP Crash Course 2 Storing and Retrieving Data 3 Using Arrays 4 String Manipulation and Regular Expressions 5 Reusing Code and Writing Functions 6 Object-Oriented PHP 7 Error and Exception Handling Part II Using MySQL 8 Designing Your Web Database 9 Creating Your Web Database 10 Working with Your MySQL Database 11 Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP 12 Advanced MySQL Administration 13 Advanced MySQL Programming Part III Web Application Security 14 Web Application Security Risks 15 Building a Secure Web Application16 Cryptography Basics 17 Implementing Authentication with PHP and MySQL Part IV Advanced PHP Techniques 18 Interacting with the File System and the Server 19 Using Network and Protocol Functions 20 Managing the Date and Time 21 Internationalization and Localization22 Generating Images 23 Using Session Control in PHP 24 Frameworks and Components25 Other Useful Features Part V Building Practical PHP and MySQL Projects 26 Using PHP and MySQL for Large Projects27 Debugging and Logging28 Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment29 Building User Authentication and Personalization30 Building a Web-Based Email Service with Laravel31 Social Media Integration Sharing and Authentication32 Building Web Forums with Simple MVC33 Building a Shopping Cart34 Designing an API for Your Web Applications Part VI: Appendix A Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL