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 ...

Quite a few of the applications ... in PHP and used a database to keep track of events. Since I had already planned on configuring an extra computer for use as a web server, I figured that it wouldn't ...

The first part has chapters that cover the traditional three-tier architecture used in web database applications. It is followed by a chapter on PHP and a chapter on MySQL and SQL in general. There is ...