Want to learn to program using PHP? It would be tempting to pick up a PHP programming book, but you might be left with a profound feeling that you’ve learned lots of theory, without really having ...

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 PHP ...

The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in the prepared statement function or send ...

While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

Developers behind the MySQL database announced plans this week to stop using and replace terms like master, slave, blacklist, and whitelist in the database's source code and documentation. In a blog ...

I’ve got to hand it to Practical PHP and MySQL author Jono Bacon: There aren’t a lot of writers who could get me to bring a book about Web development on a plane to keep from being bored. He ...