18. Application of SQL and PHP to databases

By finishing Chapter 17, you should now have some experience of database programming on the Web and some general database pages ready for action. In fact, all the programs introduced in the previous chapter are SQL test programs. They are handy and practical because they allow you or users to send SQL statements to databases performing all kinds of database-related actions. In order to use these programs effectively, you may need to have a basic knowledge SQL and its statements, but a solid understanding of SQL is far more important than that. From a practical point of view, knowledge of SQL is considered as the single important key for designing successful database applications on the Web. For example, ...

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