Part IV
Powering Databases with MySQL and PHP
In previous chapters you saw how PHP provides a strong programming language, and then how MySQL provides a full-featured relational database. In Part IV you’ll see how PHP and MySQL work together with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to allow you to build extremely capable and powerful web applications to handle a wide range of needs.
Chapter 12 describes how PHP is used with MySQL to create, access, and query a database. It reviews the types of queries; how information entered into website forms is used to create new records in database tables; and then how information in a database is read, formatted, and displayed on a web page. Finally, the chapter looks at how to detect and handle errors and security ...
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