Chapter 3. Running the Projects

This book is crammed full of projects, lots of delightfully delicious projects that show you how to do interesting things with PHP and MySQL. Within each project are pages and pages of source code that gradually build up each project. Although you are more than welcome to sit there and carefully type each line as you go, we figured you might want to just run the projects right away and see how they work. Sound good? Well, you will be pleased to see that the shiny disc wedged into the book provides you with hours of project-running enjoyment!

So what is on the disc? Well, the disc is called a Live CD, and it provides you with a simple and easy means of running a complete operating system on your computer without touching ...

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