As a backend database management system, MySQL is the perfect partner for PHP. It has a well-deserved reputation for speed in the Web environment, where the commonest class of queries are simple ...

Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications demonstrates that it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. The book walks you ...

Enterprise Applications SAMS – Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data.

The database chapter is primarily focused on MySQL, but it also touches on other SQL databases. In the next part of the book, these three tools--the three-tier approach, PHP and MySQL--are combined to ...