PHP (Personal Home Pages) Programming

Known for its straightforward simplicity, PHP is an open source, general-purpose scripting language oriented for web development. In PHP Succinctly, author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza guides newcomers through PHP's basics, which includes deployment, programming themes such as variables, decision making, arrays, functions, and databases, and the creation of a functional webpage that will connect to a database. By the end, you'll be ready to join the vast community of PHP users around the world.

There’s a lot of outdated information on the Web that leads new PHP users astray, propagating bad practices and insecure code. PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular coding standards, links to authoritative tutorials around the Web and what the contributors consider to be best practices at the present time.

This book written to provide clear and concise explanation of topics for programmers both starting to learn the PHP programming as well as those diving in more complex topics. Most examples are linked to online playground that allows you to change the code and re-run it.

You're about to learn to use the most powerful web development language that can be found, and, what's more, you will do so with the minimum of fuss.