Intermediate - Advanced Level Users.
Every effective e-commerce Web site has both a well-designed database and a suite of applications that allow a Web front end to interact with it. The most important open source building blocks of such sites are MySQL, a database query language and PHP, a server-side, cross-platform, HTML-embedded scripting language. These two technologies can work extremely well together.
This book offers both theoretical and practical guidance for creating Web database applications. The detailed information on designing relational databases and the Web application architectures that interact with them will be especially useful to readers who have worked with or built database-backed Web sites before.
The book implements a sample Web application using PHP and MySQL on the Apache platform.
