Adrian W. West - Practical PHP and MySQL Website Databases: A Simplified Approach

Practical PHP and MySQL Web Site Databases

A Simplified Approach

Adrian W. West

Practical PHP and MySQL Web Site Databases: A Simplified Approach

Copyright 2013 by Adrian W. West

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About the Author

Adrian West resigned as a chartered engineer to become the UK director of a correspondence school. He has been teaching in one form or another since 1982. He introduced computers into his workplace in 1987 and taught the staff how to use them. For four years, he taught undergraduates computer skills at a college in Cheshire in the United Kingdom.

Adrian lives in Colyton, a town in Devon, England, and for the last 14 years, he has designed and produced web sites for local businesses and charities. For a time, he also served as a computer technician and teacher to about 100 people in his community. Then he decided to concentrate on his favorite occupation, designing web sites. To avoid disappointing his former clients, he launched a free computer-help web site at http://www.colycomputerhelp.co.uk .

Adrian also writes monthly computer-help articles for two local magazines.

Adrian is the author of Practical HTML5 Projects ( Apress.com , 2012), a book dedicated to improving the design of web sites. That book was prompted by the lack of information on certain aspects of web design. He researched, tested, and developed solutions for these useful but otherwise poorly documented techniques.