Learning PHP MySQL JavaScript CSS & HTML5: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites

About this book

Build interactive data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards even if you only have basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide youll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of todays core technologies: PHP MySQL JavaScript CSS and HTML5. Explore each technology separately learn how to use them together and pick up valuable web programming practices along the way. At the end of the book youll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site. Learn PHP in-depth along with the basics of object-oriented programming Explore MySQL from database structure to complex queries Create dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the user Manage cookies and sessions and maintain a high level of security Master the JavaScript language and use it to create interactive web pages Use Ajax calls for background browser/server communication Acquire CSS2 & CSS3 skills for professionally styling your web pages Implement all the new HTML5 features including geolocation audio video and the canvas