Think of all the things you could do in 24 hours. Go sightseeing. Read a book. Learn PHP. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is a unique learning tool that is divided into 24 one-hour lessons over five sections. Starting with the basics, you will discover the fundamentals of PHP and how to apply that knowledge to create dynamic websites with forms, cookies and authentication functions. You will also find out how to access databases, as well as how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and more. A support website includes access to source code, PHP updates, errata and links to other relevant websites. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is a quick and easy way to learn how to create interactive websites for your end user.
Step-by-step lessons for using PHP and MySQL in a unique book-and-video combination Assuming no previous experience with PHP or MySQL, this book-and-video package is ideal reading for anyone who wants to go beyond HTML/CSS in order to provide clients with the most dynamic web sites possible. The approachable tone breaks down the basics of programming and PHP and MySQL in individual lessons starting with the installation of the programs necessary to run PHP. You begin with a static web site and then watch and learn as PHP functionality is added as you work through the lessons. When working with databases, the MySQL database is introduced with demonstrations that show how to interact with it. The accompanying videos enhance your learning experience, as each lesson in the book is portrayed in the video exercises. Lessons include: * Getting started with PHP * Setting up your workspace * Adding PHP to a web page * Learning PHP syntax * Working with variables * Debugging code * Working with complex data * Making decisions * Repeating program steps * Learning about scope * Reusing code with functions * Creating forms * Introducing object-oriented programming * Defining classes * Using classes * Using advanced techniques * Handling errors * Writing secure code * Introducing databases * Introducing MySQL * Creating and connecting to the * Creating tables * Entering data * Selecting data * Using multiple tables * Changing data * Deleting data * Preventing database security issues * Creating user logins * Turn the case study into a content management system Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book.
"Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Second Edition" explains the basics of programming in the successful 24-Hours format. The book begins with the absolute basics of programming: Why program? What tools to use? How does a program tell the computer what to do? It teaches readers how to program the computer and then moves on by exploring the some most popular programming languages in use. The author starts by introducing the reader to the Basic language and finishes with basic programming techniques for Java, C++, and others.
PHP is a versatile language based on object-oriented programming concept. It is practiced by a huge community. PHP is the least complex and makes better applications if used in the right context. It supports some great frameworks like Zend, Laravel, and Symphony. Most beginners find PHP difficult because they either spend a long time learning all the things, or they are using poorly crafted online courses. To make PHP easier to learn, we extracted some niche topic of PHP and compiled them in simple to understand format in this small e-book. On top of it, the examples are made more interactive to help understand some advanced PHP topics. The best part of this e-book is the price is almost negligible. With this edition, beginners will learn to interpret PHP language in the nick of time. They will able to build a basic application on HTML, CSS, etc. without any peer guidance or external course. All the major concept of PHP are covered in this e-book. Once you know the tips and tricks, the book can be a guide for building Web-based services for mobile devices. You will be able to gain more knowledge about PHP functions and MySQL through it. Besides having limited coding language, you will become someone having a deeper understanding of PHP in no time. With this e-book, you soon can become the part of these huge base of PHP users like Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Wordpress, and so on. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1. What is a scripting language? 2. Scripting VS Programming Language 3. What does PHP stand for? 4. Php Syntax 5. What is PHP used for & Market share 6. PHP vs ASP.NET VS JSP VS CFML Chapter 2: Introduction to XAMPP 1. What is XAMPP? 2. How to Download and Install XAMPP 3. XAMPP Control Panel 4. What is the best PHP IDE? 5. Introduction to Netbeans IDE 6. Creating a new PHP project using the Netbeans IDE Chapter 3: Data Types, Variables and Operators 1. Data Types 2. Variable 3. Variable Type Casting 4. Constant 5. Operators Chapter 4: Comments, Include & Require 1. Comments 2. Include & PHP Include_once 3. Require & PHP require_once 4. include vs require Chapter 5: Arrays 1. What is an Array? 2. Numeric Arrays 3. Associative Array 4. Multi-dimensional arrays 5. Arrays: Operators Chapter 6: Control structures 1. What is a control structure? 2. IF Else 3. PHP Loop 4. While Loop 5. Switch Case Chapter 7: Strings 1. What is a string? 2. Create Strings Using Double quotes 3. Heredoc 4. Nowdoc 5. String functions Chapter 8: Functions 1. What is a Function? 2. Built in Functions 3. String Functions 4. Numeric Functions 5. Date Function 6. Why use User Defined Functions? Chapter 9: Forms 1. What is form? 2. Create a form 3. POST method 4. GET method 5. GET vs POST Methods 6. Processing the registration form data Chapter 10: Cookies & Sessions 1. What is Cookies? 2. Creating Cookies 3. Retrieving the Cookie value 4. What is a Session? 5. Creating a Session Chapter 11: File Processing 1. What is a File? 2. File_exists Function 3. Fopen Function 4. Fwrite Function 5. Fgets Function 6. File_get_contents Function Chapter 12: Error Handling 1. What is an Exception? 2. PHP Error handling 3. Error handling examples 4. Difference between Errors and Exception 5. Multiple Exceptions Chapter 13: Regular Expression 1. What is a regular expressions? 2. Preg_match 3. Preg_split 4. Preg_replace 5. Meta characters 6. Explaining the pattern Chapter 14: MAIL 1. What is PHP mail? 2. Why/When to use the PHP mail 3. Simple Transmission Protocol 4. Sanitizing email user inputs 5. Secure Mail Chapter 15: Database Access 1. mysql_connect function 2. mysql_select_db function 3. mysql_query function 4. mysql_num_rows function 5. mysql_fetch_array function 6. Data Access Object PDO Chapter 16: OOPS 1. What is UML? 2. What is object oriented programming? 3. Creating a class 4. Inheritance implementation 5. Using the classes 6. Testing our application Chapter 17: Date 1. What is Date Function? 2. What is a TimeStamp? 3. PHP set Timezone Programmatically 4. Mktime Function 5. PHP Date function reference Chapter 18: Security Functions 1. What is a Security? 2. Potential security threats 3. PHP Application Security Best Practices 4. filter_var function 5. PHP Md5 and PHP sha1 Chapter 19: XML,DOM, Parsers 1. What is XML? 2. What is DOM? 3. XML Parsers 4. Creating the index page that reads the XML document 5. Creating an XML document using PHP Chapter 20: Sample Project 1. Opinion Polls 2. Database 3. Coding our application 4. Testing our application Chapter 21: PHP with Ajax 1. What is JavaScript? 2. What is XML? 3. What is Ajax? 4. Creating an Ajax application Chapter 22: Frameworks 1. What is a framework? 2. Introduction to PHP MVC framework 3. Porting the opinion poll application to CodeIgniter 4. Database configuration settings 5. Creating Our Model 6. Creating Our Views
Meloni combines coverage of these three popular open-source Web development tools into one easy-to-understand book--and it comes with one easy-to-use Starter Kit CD for Windows or Linux. The book teaches the reader to install, configure and set up the PHP scripting language, the MySQL database system, and the Apache Web server.
Sams Teach Yourself Apache in 24 Hours covers the installation, configuration, and ongoing administration of the Apache Web server, the most popular Internet Web server. It covers both the 1.3 and the new 2.0 versions of Apache. Using a hands-on, task-oriented format, it concentrates on the most popular features and common quirks of the server. The first part of the book helps the reader build, configure, and get started with Apache. After completing these chapters the reader will be able to start, stop, and monitor the Web server. He also will be able to serve both static content and dynamic content, customize the logs, and restrict access to certain parts of the Web server. The second part of the book explains in detail the architecture of Apache and how to extend the server via third-party modules like PHP and Tomcat. It covers server performance and scalability, content management, and how to set up a secure server with SSL.
There currently no books on the market that offer to teach FreeBSD to a novice. This book will be very attractive to the rushed and impatient, as well as to those who simply have a desire to learn the benefits of FreeBSD when compared to other proprietary operating systems. The book covers the most beneficial uses of FreeBSD, as well as the information needed to install and configure the operating system. This book will be the definitive tutorial reference for the growing FreeBSD market.
If you want to learn computer programming but don’t know which language to start with, this is the book for you! In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, any beginner can get a solid introduction to the basics of computer programming and learn to write simple programs for any platform—Windows, Mac, and mobile. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this carefully crafted tutorial builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn all the essentials of programming from the ground up. Once you’ve mastered these fundamentals, the book introduces you to several of the most popular computer programming languages today and helps you decide which language to learn first. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common programming tasks. Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn to create your own programs Quizzes and exercises at the end of each lesson help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills Learn how to… Set up your programming toolkit with widely available free downloads Create simple programs in JavaScript that get user input and display output Process numbers and words Use variables to hold information Merge strings together Tell programs how to make decisions Create algorithms to count data values and accumulate totals Use JavaScript to create interactive web pages Improve a user’s experience with cookies Debug your programs before going live Structure programs for readability Apply your programming skills to more advanced languages like Java Use object-oriented programming techniques Choose between other popular languages like C and C++, HTML5 and CSS3, Visual Basic and .NET, and PHP Distribute and sell your programs
Learn HTML5 and CSS3 in 24 one-hour lessons! Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours is a well-organized, clearly written, and generously illustrated tutorial that teaches beginners how to quickly create great-looking web pages using HTML5 and CSS3. With a practical, jargon-free focus on quickly getting web pages created and published to the web, the book's 24 one-hour lessons carefully guide the reader through each step involved in creating, enhancing, and maintaining web sites of all types and sizes. The ninth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours brings the entire book in line with the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications and capabilities and includes fresh material and examples that take full advantage of the book's full-color layout and design. Anyone who completes the lessons in this book can have his or her web pages be among those that appear on the Internet. In fact, within the first two lessons in this book, someone with no previous HTML experience at all can have a web page ready to go online. If you like learning by doing, this is the book for you. It organizes lessons in the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 into simple steps and then shows you exactly how to tackle each step. Many of these HTML code examples are accompanied by pictures of the output produced by the code. You see how it's done, you read a clear, concise explanation of how it works, and then you immediately do the same thing with your own page. A few minutes later, you're on to the next step. Learn how to... Build your own web page and get it online in an instant Format text for maximum clarity and readability Create links to other pages and to other sites Add graphics, color, and visual pizzazz to your web pages Work with transparent images and background graphics Design your site’s layout and typography using CSS Get user input with web-based forms Publicize your site and make it search-engine friendly Test a website for compatibility with different browsers Make your site easy to maintain and update as it grows Use HTML5 semantic tags to better structure your pages Create columns with CSS Add HTML5-based video and audio to your site Use CSS3 transforms, transitions, and animations to create great visual effects Use HTML5’s powerful form validation capability Contents at a Glance Part I: Getting Started on the Web 1 Understanding How the Web Works 2 Structuring an HTML Document 3 Understanding Cascading Style Sheets Part II: Building Blocks of HTML 4 A Closer Look at HTML5 Page Structure 5 Working with Text Blocks and Lists 6 Working with Fonts 7 Working with Colors and Borders 8 Using External and Internal Links 9 Using Tables and Columns 10 Creating Images for Use on the Web 11 Using Images in Your Web Site 12 Using Multimedia in Your Web Site Part III: Advanced Web Page Design with CSS 13 Working with Margins, Padding, Alignment, and Floating 14 Understanding the CSS Box Model and Positioning 15 Creating Fixed or Liquid Layouts 16 Using CSS to Do More with Lists 17 Using CSS to Design Navigation 18 Using Mouse Actions to Modify Text Display 19 Implementing CSS3 Transforms, Transitions, and Animations PART IV: Advanced Web Site Functionality and Management 20 Creating Print-Friendly Web Pages 21 Understanding Dynamic Web Sites and HTML5 Applications 22 Working with Web-Based Forms 23 Organizing and Managing a Web Site 24 Helping People Find Your Web Pages
Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours explains the basics of programming in the successful 24 Hours format. The book's examples are easily readable and understandable by even those with no previous exposure to programming. This book covers the absolute basics of programming: Why program? What tools to use? How does a program tell the computer what to do? Readers will learn how to program the computer and will explore some of the most popular programming languages in use. This book will introduce the reader to common programming fundamentals using Python and will provide an overview of other common programming languages and their uses.
