Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites, 2nd Edition

If you’re familiar with HTML, using the information in Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS, you will quickly learn how to build interactive, data-driven websites with the powerful combination of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS – the top technologies for creating modern sites. This hands-on guide explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts such as objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management.Carefully paced for non-programmers, this second edition of the top-selling guide to web development now also provides an extensive introduction to CSS, and benefits from reader questions and suggestions about the first edition, making the new edition even easier to follow and more information-packed than ever.

Plus, to ensure your have understood all the main points, you’ll practice what you’ve learned with review questions at the end of each chapter, and there’s even a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSSwill enable you to:

• Understand PHP up to an intermediate level, including the basics of object-oriented programming
• Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
• Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
• Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
• Pick up the basics of CSS (and CSS3) and learn how to use it to create compelling and dynamic web pages.
• Find out how to manipulate CSS properties directly from JavaScript
• Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly interactive environment
• Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications
• Bring all these technologies together to create a  social networking site

如果您熟悉HTML，请使用中的信息 学习PHP、MySQL、JavaScript和CSS，您将很快了解如何使用PHP、MySQL、JavaScript和CSS的强大组合来构建交互式、数据驱动型网站，这些都是创建现代网站的顶级技术。这本实践指南分别解释了每种技术，向您展示了如何组合它们，并介绍了有价值的Web编程概念，如对象、XHTML、Cookie和会话管理。对于非程序员来说，这本最畅销的Web开发指南的第二版现在还提供了对CSS的广泛介绍，并从读者对第一版的问题和建议中受益，使新版本比以往任何时候都更容易理解和信息更丰富。

此外，为了确保你已经理解了所有要点，你将在每一章的末尾用复习问题来练习你所学到的东西，甚至还有一个使用本书中介绍的元素构建的社交网络平台样本。

学习PHP、MySQL、JavaScript和CSS将使您能够：

• 对PHP的了解达到中级，包括面向对象编程的基础知识
• 掌握MySQL，从数据库结构到复杂查询
• 通过集成表单和其他HTML功能，使用PHP和MySQL创建网页
• 了解从函数和事件处理到访问文档对象模型的JavaScript
• 学习css(和css3)的基础知识，并学习如何使用它来创建引人入胜的动态网页。
• Find out how to manipulate CSS properties directly from JavaScript
• 调用AJAX并将您的网站转变为高度交互的环境
• 上传和操作文件和图像、验证用户输入并保护您的应用程序
• 将所有这些技术结合在一起，创建一个全新的社交网站