Textbook Readings

The chapters in our textbook provide an excellent understanding of PHP and MySQL. Many of the chapters have example code to work through that helps give a better understanding of the topics.

For MySQL, we went over chapters four, five, and nine. Chapter four introduced MySQL with how to use proper syntax and the different column types that can be created. It also went over how to access MySQL with phpMyAdmin. Chapter five went more in-depth with showing how to do things creating databases and tables, inserting and deleting data, selecting data and sorting the results, and functions. Chapter nine combines what we have learned from PHP and MySQL. It goes over how to use PHP to connect to a MySQL database and execute queries. It also provides an example of a webpage that allows users to register and change their passwords. Here is a link to what the finished webpage looks like.