Beighley Lynn - Head First Php And Mysql

Head First PHP & MySQL

Lynn Beighley

Michael Morrison

Beijing Cambridge Farnham Kln Sebastopol Tokyo

For my parents, who frequently use web applications and are always there for me.

Lynn Beighley

To Rasmus Lerdorf, who single-handedly sparked the language that would eventually become PHP as we know it now. Enduring proof that it really only takes one person to lead us all down a new, more enlightened path.

Michael Morrison

Using images and humor the book is easy to digest and yet delivers real technical know-how.

Jereme Allen, Web Developer

After a challenging, high-speed read-through and lots of quirky Do This projects, such as My dog was abducted by aliens and the Mismatch Dating Agency, I cant wait to add some real PHP power to my web sites.

David Briggs, Software Engineer and Technical Author

The Web would be a much better place if every HTML author started off by reading this book.

L. David Baron, Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation, http://dbaron.org/

Ive been writing HTML and CSS for ten years now, and what used to be a long trial and error learning process has now been reduced neatly into an engaging paperback. HTML used to be something you could just hack away at until things looked okay on screen, but with the advent of web standards and the movement towards accessibility, sloppy coding practice is not acceptable anymore... from a business standpoint or a social responsibility standpoint. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML teaches you how to do things right from the beginning without making the whole process seem overwhelming. HTML, when properly explained, is no more complicated than plain English, and the Freemans do an excellent job of keeping every concept at eye-level.

Mike Davidson, President & CEO, Newsvine, Inc.

Oh, great. You made an XHTML book simple enough a CEO can understand it. What will you do next? Accounting simple enough my developer can understand it? Next thing you know well be collaborating as a team or something.

Janice Fraser, CEO, Adaptive Path

This book has humor, and charm, but most importantly, it has heart. I know that sounds ridiculous to say about a technical book, but I really sense that at its core, this book (or at least its authors) really care that the reader learn the material. This comes across in the style, the language, and the techniques. Learning real understanding and comprehension on the part of the reader is clearly top most in the minds of the Freemans. And thank you, thank you, thank you, for the books strong, and sensible advocacy of standards compliance. Its great to see an entry level book, that I think will be widely read and studied, campaign so eloquently and persuasively on behalf of the value of standards compliance in web page code. I even found in here a few great arguments I had not thought of ones I can remember and use when I am asked as I still am whats the deal with compliance and why should we care? Ill have more ammo now! I also liked that the book sprinkles in some basics about the mechanics of actually getting a web page live - FTP, web server basics, file structures, etc.

Robert Neer, Director of Product Development, Movies.com

An excellent choice for the beginning JavaScript developer.

Fletcher Moore, Web Developer & Designer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Yet another great book in the classic Head First style.

TW Scannell

JavaScript has long been the client-side engine that drives pages on the Web, but it has also long been misunderstood and misused. With Head First JavaScript , Michael Morrison gives a straightforward and easy-to-understand introduction of this language, removing any misunderstanding that ever existed and showing how to most effectively use it to enhance your web pages.

Anthony T. Holdener III, Web applications developer, and the author of Ajax: The Definitive Guide .

A web page has three partscontent (HTML), appearance (CSS), and behaviour (JavaScript).