How To Make A Website
Build Your Own Database-Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL
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What's In This Book
This book comprises the following 12 chapters. Read them in order from beginning to end to gain a complete understanding of the subject, or skip around if you need a refresher on a particular topic.
"Installation"
Before you can start building your database-driven Web presence, you must first ensure that you have the right tools for the job. In this first chapter, I'll tell you where to obtain the two essential components you'll need: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database management system. I'll step you through the setup procedures on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and show you how to test that PHP is operational on your Web server.
"Getting Started with MySQL"
Although I'm sure you'll be anxious to get started building dynamic Web pages, I'll begin with an introduction to databases in general, and the MySQL relational database management system in particular. If you've never worked with a relational database before, this should definitely be an enlightening chapter that will whet your appetite for things to come! In the process, we'll build up a simple database to be used in later chapters.
"Getting Started with PHP"
Here's where the fun really starts. In this chapter, I'll introduce you to the PHP scripting language, which can be easily used to build dynamic Web pages that present up-to-themoment information to your visitors. Readers with previous programming experience will probably be able to get away with a quick skim of this chapter, as I explain the essentials of the language from the ground up. This is a must-read chapter for beginners, however, as the rest of this book relies heavily on the basic concepts presented here.
"Publishing MySQL Data on the Web"
In this chapter we bring together PHP and MySQL, which you'll have seen separately in the previous two chapters, to create some of your first database-driven Web pages. We'll explore the basic techniques of using PHP to retrieve information from a database and display it on the Web in real time. I'll also show you how to use PHP to create Web-based forms for adding new entries to, and modifying existing information in, a MySQL database on-the-fly.
"Relational Database Design"
Although we'll have worked with a very simple sample database in the previous chapters, most database-driven Websites require the storage of more complex forms of data than we'll have dealt with so far. Far too many database-driven Website designs are abandoned midstream, or are forced to start again from the beginning, because of mistakes made early on, during the design of the database structure. In this critical chapter, I'll teach the essential principles of good database design, emphasizing the importance of data normalization. If you don't know what that means, then this is definitely an important chapter for you to read!
"A Content Management System"
In many ways the climax of the book, this chapter is the big payoff for all you frustrated site builders who are tired of updating hundreds of pages whenever you need to make a change to a site's design. I'll walk you through the code for a basic content management system that allows you to manage a database of jokes, their categories, and their authors. A system like this can be used to manage simple content on your Website, and with a few modifications you should be able to build a Web administration system that will have your content providers submitting content for publication on your site in no time - all without having to know a shred of HTML!
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