PHP (viết tắt của Hypertext Preprocessor) được hiểu đơn giản là ngôn ngữ lập trình kịch bản sử dụng mã nguồn mở với mục tiêu tạo ra các ứng dụng hoặc phần mềm chạy trên máy chủ

That's what one developer posted on the first edition of Murach's PHP and MySQL. Now, this 3rd Edition does a better-than-ever job of delivering the skills you need to develop database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL, the way today's top web professionals do.

Learn to develop high-quality applications and frameworks in PHP

This practical guide gives you 100 ready-to-run PHP functions for solving most of the main problems you encounter when building a dynamic website with PHP. Every plug-in in the book offers a complete and working solution for a result you can achieve right away, using ready-made code you simply drop into your own program. And there's little or no learning curve, because each one is self-contained and thoroughly documented.

This is not a PHP language book for use as reference. There are many good PHP language books out there. This book is designed for intermediate-to advanced-level PHP developers who can review the fifty PHP applications developed for this book and deploy them as is or customize them as needed.