Dynamic Web Application Development Using PHP and MySQL 1e

Simon Stobart, David Parsons, 440pp Published by Cengage Learning EMEA, ©2008 Available Now £39.99

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Providing an end-to-end view of how modern web applications are built, Dynamic Web Application Development takes a cohesive approach to building a software architecture from core components. It tells a development story by taking you right through from analysis and design, learning the core technologies, and tying them together using standard tools patterns and frameworks without straying into detail or trying to cover too many alternatives.

Using PHP scripting and the MySQL database management system, this is a contemporary and well targeted coverage of important areas of web application development including Ajax, , adaptive markup, web application frameworks, standards and conformance, accessibility and security issues. It shows you how to build functionality into a website using a variety of technologies. These will work as a basic framework from which you will be able to explore more challenging developments such as porting applications to mobile devices and including more Web 2.0 features.

An ideal text for web programming courses, this book will help you whether you are a student or need to reskill and want a dependable and accessible self-study package.

Features

• Covers core building blocks: PHP, MySQL, Web 2.0, Ajax, Javascript and XHTML.
• Demonstrates good design and good practice.
• Covers both client and server side technologies and hot technologies, such as Ajax.
• Clear, separate working example scripts are shown throughout.
• Covers topics such as security, accessibility and conformance to guidelines.
• The accompanying CD contains a toolbox that features WAMP, PHP Designer, MySQL Workbench.
• The CD also features example code with the addition of three worked larger scale examples, illustrating a hangman game, a shopping cart with paged display of items for sale and a members message.

1. Introduction to Web Applications
2. Web Application Requirements Analysis and Design
3. Structure and Content in the Presentation Layer: The HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
4. Styling in the Presentation Layer: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
5. Content, Structure and Validation: XML, DTD and XHTML
6. Introduction to JavaScript
7. Interactive JavaScript: Dynamic HTML, client side validation and Ajax
8. Introduction to PHP
9. Flow of Control
10. Form Interaction
11. Strings and Arrays
12. Files, Cookies, Sessions and Email
13. Functions, Dates and Times and Redirection
14. Databases
15. Linking PHP to a Database
16. Introducing Object Orientation
17. Object Oriented Inheritance and Polymorphism
18. Combining Ajax and PHP - Making the Web more Dynamic
19. Conformance to Standards and Accessibility
20. Building More Secure and Robust Web Applications

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Simon Stobart
Simon Stobart is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Sunderland.

David Parsons
David Parsons has lectured in both further and higher education, and is currently teaching and researching at the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.