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. Previously, in our work with ...

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.

Startups How to start developing a web app using PHP If you’re thinking about developing a web app for the first time, you’ve probably heard about a scripting language called “PHP”.

In this tip, you’ll use Phobos and jMaki to create a simple Ajax-enabled web application. The jMaki framework is a lightweight framework for creating Web 2.0 applications using standards-based ...