PHP & MySQL web development all-in-one desk reference for dummies / by Janet Valade, with Tricia Ballad and Bill Ballad.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Book I: Setting up your environment -- Chapter 1: Setting up your Web environment -- Chapter 2: Installing PHP -- Chapter 3: Setting up the MySQL environment -- Chapter 4: Installing a Web server -- Chapter 5: Setting up your Web development environment with the XAMPP package -- Book II: PHP programming -- Chapter 1: PHP basics -- Chapter 2: Building PHP scripts -- Chapter 3: PHP and your operating system -- Chapter 4: Object-oriented programming --
Book III: Using MySQL -- Chapter 1: Introducing MySQL -- Chapter 2: Administering MySQL -- Chapter 3: Designing and buliding a database -- Chapter 4: Using the database -- Chapter 5: Communicating with the database from PHP scripts -- Book IV Security -- Chapter 1: General security considerations -- Chapter 2: An Overview of authentication and encryption -- Chapter 3: Creating a secure environment --
Chapter 4: Programming securely in PHP -- Chapter 5: Programming secure e-commerce applications -- Book V: PHP extension -- Chapter 1: Introduction to extensions --
Chapter 2: Using PEAR -- Chapter 3: Using the XML extensions -- Chapter 4: Manipulating images with the GD extension -- Chapter 5: Mail extensions -- Book VI: PHP Web applications -- Chapter 1: Building and processing dynamic forms -- Chapter 2: Making information available on multiple web pages -- Chapter 3: Building a login application -- Chapter 4: Building an online catalog -- Chapter 5: Building a shopping cart.

Explains how to build Web database applications with the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database.