Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9- P2:On the other hand, it would drive me nuts if you bought this book only to discover that it didn’t address your needs. In the spirit of customer satisfaction, please read the following introduction to get a sense of where I’m coming from, and whether you might get some good use out of this book. | PART I Basics of Web Publishing IN THIS PART CHAPTER 1 How Web Publishing Works 7 CHAPTER 2 Introduction to HTML 17 CHAPTER 3 Introduction to PHP 31 This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 How Web Publishing Works What Do I Mean by Web Publishing Anyway If you are reading this book I feel I can safely assume that you are interested in building a website. Perhaps you are already familiar with Hypertext Markup Language HTML PHP or the general concepts behind the broad topic of web publishing. To make sure we re speaking the same language I want to define my use of the term web publishing To make HTML available on the Internet for people to view in a web browser. This is a very narrow definition of the term but it s all I am able to cover in this book. And it s plenty to get you started on the web. Because you are probably quite familiar with browsing the web I will start my discussion of web publishing there. When you open a web browser FireFox Safari Microsoft Internet Explorer and so on and load a uniform resource locator URL for example http you are simply opening a text document that s stored on someone else s computer. The text document is more commonly referred to as a web page. Web pages are just plain old text files sitting on someone else s computer. They really aren t much different than any text document that you might have on your computer except that they contain HTML. IN THIS CHAPTER What Do I Mean by Web Publishing Anyway Simple Website in Five Steps Anatomy of a URL Smart Web Pages .
