Every language has a bit of a learning curved and one can get bogged down in two much theory that it can make it unappealing because the task ahead seems odious.
Maybe you want to build a simple blog or something as advanced as a massive online e-commerce site with thousands of products up for sale.
It is hard to know where to start getting the needed knowledge. If you are looking for a way to get going fast in order to make you visions a reality then you have come to the right place!
This books aims at getting you started on your journey to PHP and MySQL mastery in 4 hours! It does this by telling you the most important stuff you need to know to get started quickly for the absolute beginner, in either PHP or MySQL, so you get to doing useful stuff as quickly as possible.
This is not a comprehensive guide to PHP and MySQL that covers all the aspects but a crash course that gives you a practical guide on how to do really cool basic things with PHP and MySQL on their own and together.
The two can get pretty advanced but with the knowledge in this book, you should be able to get that prototype up and running as you tackle the more advanced topics.
A little knowledge of HTML and CSS will be needed before because, really, PHP is just a language that is used to produce web pages and its final output is HTML.
We will go over all the basics of PHP and MySQL and finally put it all together and build simple web site where you will be able to store a records of your favourite artists using the dynamic duo.
The basics are all you need to get going in 4 hours (and this book, of course) is all you need. But what is PHP or MySQL and why do you need it to accomplish this previously impossible task?
