Chapter 8. The PHP API
PHP is a scripting language that lets you write Web pages containing embedded code that is executed whenever a page is accessed and that can generate dynamic content to be included as part of the output sent to a client's Web browser. This chapter describes how to use PHP to write Web-based applications that use MySQL. For a comparison of PHP with the C and Perl DBI APIs for MySQL programming, see Chapter 5, "Introduction to MySQL Programming."
The examples in this chapter draw on our sample database, samp_db, using the tables that we created for the grade-keeping project and for the Historical League in Chapter 1, "Introduction to MySQL and SQL." We'll cover PHP 3, although as I write PHP 4 is in beta testing and may ...
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