Unlike those other professional-level books on open-source scripting, PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide isn't just for professional programmers--it's written for the rest of us with a passing familiarity with HTML.

This visual, task-based guide gets users up and running with the basics of PHP, starting with basic syntax, testing scripts, working with variables, creating Web applications, and more. Throughout the book, sample scripts and projects show the reader just what they need to know, and a companion Web site offers every script available for downloading.