PHP 5 For Dummies

Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular opensource Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understandFor Dummies style * PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage hasgrown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past twoyears * PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and canbe embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamicWeb pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; adatabase-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases * Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP's featuresmake it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for threeof the most common applications: interactive Web sites, databasestorage, and common operating system tasks