Abstract
After reading this chapter you should be able to:
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understand the value of using the PHP language to enable non-static information to be included on webpages, especially information retrieved from a relational database using the popular database query language MySQL
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understand how a web browser processes an HTML file and how PHP files are processed
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check that your web server is able to run PHP scripts
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understand how a valuable improvement to a webpage can sometimes be made using only a single line of PHP.
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Bramer, M. (2015). Introduction. In: Web Programming with PHP and MySQL. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22659-0_1
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