Video description
Sams Teach Yourself PHP and MySQL Video
Learning brings the successful Teach Yourself book series
from Sams Publishing to life on video — with the same clear and
concise style, practical hands-on examples, and self-paced learning
approach that have made the bestselling books so popular with
beginners looking for the easiest way to quickly get up to speed on
a new technology.
This complete video course provides up to four hours
of clear, well-organized video instruction. Each
10-minute video lesson uses a consistent, step-by-step learning
structure. After a short overview of the topic from the
series instructor, each lesson presents a short, richly illustrated
tutorial lesson, followed by a hands-on learning lab, and
concluding with an interactive quiz lets the learner test how well
he or she has grasped the material before moving on.
With
Sams Teach Yourself PHP and MySQL Video
Learning, you'll quickly and easily learn all the basics of
setting up an interactive, dynamic web site:
Install and configure PHP and MySQL on your computer
Create PHP scripts for your web site
Work with forms and files
Access information in databases
Authenticate and track users with cookies and sessions
Set up a secure web server
The DVD contains a complete video training starter kit for
Windows and Mac computers:
Four hours of video lessons with interactive labs and
quizzes
PHP, MySQL, and Apache for Windows and Mac OS X–an
easy-to-install package to set up a safe learning
environment
Work files for all the learning labs
The jEdit programming editor for Windows and Mac OS X
Table of Contents
Part I - PHP Foundations
Lesson 1: PHP Basics
Lesson 2: Variables
Lesson 3: Flow Control
Lesson 4: Functions
Lesson 5: Working with Numbers
Lesson 6: Working with Strings
Part II - Using PHP to Work with Data
Lesson 7: Working with Arrays
Lesson 8: Regular Expressions
Lesson 9: Working with Dates and Times
Lesson 10: Using Classes
Lesson 11: Processing HTML Forms
Lesson 12: Generating Dynamic HTML
Part III - PHP and the Web Environment
Lesson 13: Form Validation
Lesson 14: Cookies and Sessions
Lesson 15: User Authentication
Lesson 16: Communicating with the Web Server
Lesson 17: Filesystem Access
Lesson 18: Host Program Execution
Part IV - Using MySQL with PHP
Lesson 19: Using a MySQL Database
Lesson 20: Database Abstraction
Lesson 21: Running PHP on the Command Line
Lesson 22: Error Handling and Debugging
Lesson 23: PHP Configuration
Lesson 24: PHP Security
Lesson 25: Using PEAR