حتی اگر تنها با دانش پایه‌ای از HTML شروع می‌کنید، می‌توانید با ترکیب قدرتمند فناوری‌های متن‌باز و استانداردهای وب، وب‌سایت‌هایی تعاملی و داده‌محور بسازید. در جدیدترین نسخه‌ی این راهنمای عملی محبوب، برنامه‌نویسی پویای وب را با استفاده از نسخه‌های به‌روز فناوری‌های اصلی امروزی فرا خواهید گرفت: PHP، MySQL، JavaScript، CSS، HTML5، jQuery، Node.js و کتابخانه‌ی قدرتمند React.

طراحان وب در این مسیر یاد می‌گیرند چگونه این فناوری‌ها را به‌صورت هماهنگ استفاده کرده و هم‌زمان با مفاهیم و تمرین‌های کلیدی توسعه‌ی وب آشنا شوند—از جمله بهینه‌سازی وب‌سایت برای دستگاه‌های موبایل. در پایان، تمام این دانش‌ها را در کنار هم قرار می‌دهید تا یک وب‌سایت شبکه اجتماعی کاملاً کاربردی، مناسب برای مرورگرهای دسکتاپ و موبایل، ایجاد کنید.

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With the latest edition of this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming using the most recent versions of today's core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, jQuery, Node.js, and the powerful React library.

Web designers will learn how to use these technologies together while picking up valuable web programming practices along the way, including how to optimize websites for mobile devices. You'll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site suitable for both desktop and mobile browsers.

• Explore MySQL from database structure to complex queries
• Use the MySQL PDO extension, PHP's improved MySQL interface
• Create dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the user
• Manage cookies and sessions and maintain a high level of security
• Use Ajax calls for background browser-server communication
• Style your web pages by acquiring CSS skills
• Reformat your websites into mobile web apps
• Learn to use enhanced CSS features, such as CSS Grid and Flexbox

The combination of PHP and MySQL is the most convenient approach to dynamic, database-driven web design, holding its own in the face of challenges from some other integrated frameworks that are harder to learn. Due to its open source roots, it is free to implement and is therefore an extremely popular option for web development.

Any would-be developer on a Unix/Linux or even a Windows platform will need to master these technologies. And, combined with the partner technologies of JavaScript, React, CSS, and HTML5, you will be able to create websites of the caliber of industry standards like Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, and Gmail.

Audience

This book is for people who wish to learn how to create effective and dynamic websites. This may include webmasters or graphic designers who have already mastered creating static websites, or a CMS such as WordPress but wish to take their skills to the next level, as well as high school and college students, recent graduates, and self-taught individuals.

In fact, anyone ready to learn the fundamentals behind responsive web design will obtain a thorough grounding in the core technologies of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5, and you’ll learn the basics of the React library and how to use Node.js to support backend development using JavaScript.

Assumptions This Book Makes

This book assumes that you have a basic understanding of HTML and can at least put together a simple, static website but does not assume that you have any prior knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS—although if you do, your progress through the book will be even quicker.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Dynamic Web Content

Chapter 2. Setting Up a Development Server

Chapter 3. Introduction to PHP

Chapter 4. Expressions and Control Flow in PHP

Chapter 5. PHP Functions and Objects

Chapter 6. PHP Arrays

Chapter 7. Practical PHP

Chapter 8. Introduction to MySQL

Chapter 9. Mastering MySQL

Chapter 10. Accessing MySQL Using PHP

Chapter 11. Form Handling

Chapter 12. Cookies, Sessions, and Authentication

Chapter 13. Exploring JavaScript

Chapter 14. Expressions and Control Flow in JavaScript

Chapter 15. JavaScript Functions, Objects, and Arrays

Chapter 16. JavaScript and PHP Validation and Error Handling

Chapter 17. Using Asynchronous Communication

Chapter 18. Advanced CSS

Chapter 19. Accessing CSS from JavaScript

Chapter 20. Introduction to React

Chapter 21. Introduction to Node.js

Chapter 22. Bringing It All Together

About the Author

Robin Nixon has been a software developer and author since the 1980s and has written over 30 books on the subject. His book Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript was first published in 2009 and since then its various editions have remained some of the top-selling books on web development worldwide, and are used as course material for numerous courses in colleges and universities. Robin's books have been translated into many different languages and he has also produced a range of video tutorials.