Head First PHP & MySQL: A Brain-Friendly Guide

Head First PHP & MySQL is a comprehensive guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL.

This book offers a visually rich format with real-world examples, quizzes, puzzles, and interactive features to help you retain what you've learned.

You'll build sophisticated examples such as a mailing list, job board, and online dating site to harness the power of PHP and MySQL in various contexts.

With this book, you'll learn how to transform static HTML pages into dynamic web sites, create and populate your own MySQL database tables, perform advanced queries with joins, protect your data from SQL injection attacks, use regular expressions to validate information on forms, dynamically display text based on session info, and more.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer, this book will help you build truly dynamic websites.