Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL

HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

PHP & MySQL are the most widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today. As a Web developer you can demand a lot more $$$ for your time if you can master PHP & MySQL.

‘Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL’ is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database driven Website using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live Web-based content management system.

While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP.

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Web Development Resources

WordPress BLOG Software

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Pen and PaperMore simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

The WordPress BLOG software is compatible with RawData Hosting Servers.*

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Manage MySQL on Mac OS X

YourSQL is a simple but powerful program to create and manipulate MySQL databases. It is intended to be easy to use for the beginner as well as the more advanced user, and provides access to some otherwise underused, advanced features of MySQL, such as indices, InnoDB tables, multi-statement SQL scripts and multi-threaded handling of SQL dumps for backups or similar administration tasks.

Download YourSQL for Mac OS X