* Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites.
* Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
* Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as creating an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted e-mail, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a web interface.
* Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapters introducing triggers, stored procedures, and views.