PHP and MySQL Lessons

PHP and MySQL are two of the post popular standards used for Internet programming, sites such as Facebook, Yahoo! and Wikipedia make use of the them, and there are many job oppurtunities for those proficient in them. PHP is a scriping language, used to process and manipulate data, and MySQL is a database system, used to store the data that PHP has processed.

You'll learn about designing and creating MySQL database structures for your data, and how to write scripts in PHP that can retrieve, store and output this data to the user.

Image Manipulation

Using PHP you can do a surprising amount to images that have been uploaded by the user. For example if you sell frames, you could allow the user to upload their photo, crop it, and then see what the photo looks like in the frame.

PDF Creation

Creating PDFs on the fly can be very useful, create brochures from product databases, or issue professional press-releases automatically from a news source on your website.