Summary
Today you had a crash course in PHP, learning the basics of the language, how to incorporate PHP scripting into your Web pages, and how to use it to communicate with a MySQL database.
You should now be able to write PHP scripts that use the include statement for incorporating one file into another. You saw how to create user-defined functions and how to use the control structures if, for, and while. You learned how to handle arrays, both in general use and when created as a result of a SELECT query from a database.
You saw how to connect to a MySQL database and how to run queries, iterating through a resultset of data and processing it row by row. You also learned how to run database queries that return no resultset while determining ...
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