{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"PHP","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/php","description":"Essential Skills--Made Easy!Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner\u0026#39;s Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions. This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.Designed for Easy Learning: Key Skills \u0026amp; Concepts--Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter; Ask the Expert--Q\u0026amp;A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips; Try This--Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills; Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered; Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things; Cautions--Errors and pitfalls to avoid; Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge; Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated.","author_name":"Vikram Vaswani","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/vikram-vaswani","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/books/281702/8706214-L.jpg","thumbnail_width":394,"thumbnail_height":500}