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Julie C. Meloni

Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL & JavaScript All in One, Sixth Edition

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Julie C. Meloni is a technical consultant who has been developing web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day. She has authored numerous books and articles on web-based programming and scripting languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in 18 different languages. She barely maintains a blog at thickbook.com, and can typically be found camping in national parks or cozying up to craft cocktail bars in and around Washington, D.C.

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Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL & JavaScript All in One. This book takes the most useful parts of Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS & JavaScript All in One (Second Edition) and Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL & Apache All in One (Fifth Edition), refreshes the content for the inevitable changes in technology that happen every day, and provides you with a foundation for full stack web application development.

This foundation is provided by example; this book scaffolds your understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP (plus database interactivity with MySQL) by showing you code that builds upon other code, explaining the details of the code, and providing you with sample outputwhat it might look like on your screen.

The goal of this book is not to make you an expert in any one of these technologies but instead to give you a solid foundation in the skills you need to create modern, standards-compliant web applications. The following are of particular note:

Every example in this book is validated HTML5 and CSS3.

All the examples in the book have been tested for compatibility with the latest version of every major web browser. That includes Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. Youll learn from the start to be compatible with the past, yet ready for the future.