This is the second of two MySQL courses leading to your well-deserved diploma in PHP development. Excited? You should be, because this time, you’re going to learn advanced topics in web development ...

Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you can ...

An XML file displays rows and columns you retrieve from a MySQL database. Using PHP, you can export data from a database table to a Web form. PHP transforms the rows and columns to standard XML format ...

This second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming: A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5 by George Schlossnagle is reprinted with permission of Sams ...