PHP

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Essential Skills--Made Easy!Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices. Designed for Easy Learning: - Key Skills & Concepts--Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter

- Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips

- Try This--Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills

- Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered

- Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things

- Cautions--Errors and pitfalls to avoid

- Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge

- Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated