PHP 5/MySQL Programming- P5:computer programming has often been seen as a difficult and arcane skill. Programming languages are difficult and complicated, out of the typical person’s reach. However, the advent of the World Wide Web has changed that to some extent. It’s reasonably easy to build and post a Web page for the entire world to see. The language of the Web is reasonably simple, and numerous applications are available to assist in the preparation of static pages | xx Contents Working with the Primary Recognizing Foreign Building the Foreign Key List Working with Regular Committing a Record Deleting a Adding a Processing an Added Building a List Box from a Creating a Button That Returns Users to the Main Appendix A Reviewing HTML and Cascading Style Sheets .on cd Appendix B Using SQLite as an Alternative Data Source .on cd Index 429 Introduction Computer programming has often been seen as a difficult and arcane skill. Programming languages are difficult and complicated out of the typical person s reach. However the advent of the World Wide Web has changed that to some extent. It s reasonably easy to build and post a Web page for the entire world to see. The language of the Web is reasonably simple and numerous applications are available to assist in the preparation of static pages. At some point every Web author begins to dream of pages that actually do something useful. The simple HTML language that builds a page offers the tantalizing ability to build forms but no way to work with the information that users type into these forms. Often a developer has a database or some other dynamic information they wish to somehow attach to a Web page. Even languages such as JavaScript are not satisfying in these cases. The CGI interface was designed as an early solution to this problem but CGI itself can be confusing and the languages used with CGI especially Perl are very powerful but confusing to beginners. PHP is an amazing language. It is meant to work with Web servers where it can do the critical work of file management and database access. It is reasonably easy to learn and understand and can be embedded into Web pages. It is as powerful as more-difficult languages with a number of impressive extensions that add new features to the language. In this book I teach you how to write computer programs. I do not expect you to .