Sams Teach Yourself PHP and MySQL: Video Learning Starter Kit

Four hours of video training and lessons to get anyone just starting with PHP and MySQL up and running.

* The successful Sams Teach Yourself book series brought to life on video, with the same interactivity, hands-on examples, and self-paced lessons as the books.
* Includes rich, animated illustrations of the fundamentals of PHP programming.
* Step-by-step, hands-on labs help beginners learn practical programming techniques and quickly begin to build useful PHP and MySQL applications.

PHP and MySQL continue to be the leading, most popular, most widely used combination of technologies to quickly and efficiently build database-backed web applications. Both are now in version 5.1 and have solidified their position as the tools of choice for web sites and organizations of all sizes. This video training starter kit provides four hours of video training and lessons, along with all the source files and software -- PHP, MySQL and Apache -- the beginner needs to create and run the examples. Each 10-minute video lesson mirrors the basic learning structure of the Teach Yourself books: Overview: An introduction to the topic of the lesson, accompanied by - as much as possible - an illustration of where the lesson's technique or topic is seen in real-life. Tutorial: In highly condensed and well-illustrated form, the instructor goes through the main points using not screencams, but visually with diagrams and illustrations from real-world applications. Lab: A step-by-step, hands-on walkthrough where the technique or process is put to use to create something, and the learner is invited to 'try it yourself' by following along. Test: Interactive questions and answers where the learner can test how well he or she has learned the material in the lesson. Also suggested exercises for further or more in-depth study.