Foundation PHP5 for Flash

Description:

Our original Foundation PHP for Flash title was rightly regarded as a must-have title when it came to wanting to learn just how to make your Flash sites make use of backend technologies, that was published way back in the days of Flash 5 and PHP 4, and things move pretty fast in the world of web design!

This latest, completely rewritten, edition again brings together three of the web's hottest technologies--Flash, the server-side language PHP, and the MySQL database system. We've brought things bang up to date, using ActionScript 2.0, PHP 5.0, and MySQL 4.1, the book has been designed to be version-neutral. In other words, you can be confident that you're working with the latest standards, but that your applications won't break if deployed on an older server. The book also provides a brief introduction to an alternative database system, SQLite, which is now automatically bundled with PHP 5 and requires no installation.

At each stage of the book you'll be given an overview of a new area of PHP/MySQL, introducing you to the syntax while showing how it compares to ActionScript, and how it integrates with Flash to produce increasingly complicated applications. For example, earlier chapters cover things such as getting data from PHP to Flash and back again, variables, arrays, string manipulation, validating user input, and feedback forms. Later on, it moves on to more advanced subjects such as creating databases via the MySQL console and via phpMyAdmin, manipulating database data via a Flash interface, displaying data from an RSS feed in Flash, persisting data with sessions, and creating a full blown content management system.

In addition, to get you up and running, the book features a detailed guide to setting up your environment - PHP, MySQL, and the Apache web server - along with extensive troubleshooting information.

PHP is the language of choice on nearly 18 million domains, and MySQL has more than five million active users, including industry leaders like Google, the Associated Press, Sony, and NASA. They're open source and free; and with the help of this book, you'll see that they're easy and fun to learn.

描述：
我們最初的《Foundation PHP for Flash》書籍在Flash 5和PHP 4時代出版，被公認為學習如何讓Flash網站使用後端技術的必備書籍。在網頁設計領域，事情變化迅速！這本全新重寫的最新版本再次結合了三個網絡最熱門的技術：Flash、服務器端語言PHP和MySQL數據庫系統。我們將內容更新到最新，使用ActionScript 2.0、PHP 5.0和MySQL 4.1，這本書被設計成版本中立。換句話說，您可以放心使用最新的標準，但如果在舊的服務器上部署，您的應用程序不會出現問題。該書還簡要介紹了一個替代數據庫系統SQLite，它現在已經與PHP 5一起自動捆綁，無需安裝。

在書中的每個階段，您將獲得有關PHP/MySQL新領域的概述，介紹其語法，並顯示它與ActionScript的比較以及如何與Flash集成以生成越來越複雜的應用程序。例如，早期章節涵蓋了從PHP到Flash的數據傳輸，變量，數組，字符串操作，驗證用戶輸入和反饋表單等內容。隨後，它轉向更高級的主題，如通過MySQL控制台和phpMyAdmin創建數據庫，通過Flash界面操作數據庫數據，在Flash中顯示來自RSS源的數據，使用會話保存數據，以及創建完整的內容管理系統。

此外，為了讓您能夠快速上手，本書還提供了詳細的環境設置指南- PHP、MySQL和Apache網絡服務器-以及廣泛的故障排除信息。

PHP是近1800萬個域名的首選語言，MySQL擁有超過500萬活躍用戶，包括Google、美聯社、索尼和NASA等行業領導者。它們是開源且免費的；通過這本書的幫助，您將發現它們易於學習且有趣。