PHP & MySQL: Learn PHP & MySQL With The Ultimate Crash Course For Beginners in No Time

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to create codes using the correct syntax,
keywords, and punctuation marks. It also provides tips on how to correctly use arrays and conditional statements.
There are sample programs that can serve as your guidelines when writing your code.
This book also contains useful information about MySQL and PHP, including their histories and features.
It even discusses the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL.

You may think that learning PHP is no longer necessary if you are adept at using JavaScript. However, JavaScript is actually much limited compared to PHP. JavaScript runs in the client or browser, which means that it only knows what occurs in your browser and the websites that you visit.
On the other hand, PHP runs on the same computer or server as the website that you go to. It has access to every file and information on that computer, which enables it to create custom HTML pages that it sends to your browser, run tasks, perform calculations, and handle cookies from that website.
PHP can open, create, write, read, close, and delete files on the server. It can generate page content, collect form data, and send and receive cookies. It can also delete, add, and modify data in the database. In addition, it can encrypt data as well as control user access.
With PHP, you can output PDF files, images, and Flash movies. You are not limited to just HTML. You can even output texts, such as XML and XHTML. In other words, PHP can practically do anything. Since it is focused on server-side scripting, it can do anything that other CGI programs can do and more.