Mod 2 Textbook Assignment

Module 2 Overview

Module 2 built upon our learning of HTML and CSS by teaching us PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a server-side scripting language that allows us to add logic to the webpage content. This is important, because it allows us to modify HTML elements dynamically, rather than have to modify the html of the website constantly. Because PHP is serverside, it also helps to hide information used in calculations that the user does not need to see.

While the W3Schools and Codecademy tutorials were helpful for me, I enjoyed working from Larry Ullman's PHP and MySQL textbook. The PHP textbook provided its own introduction and tutorial for learning PHP by combining different PHP scripts with HTML forms that I learned how to create previously. The textbook projects were more difficult than those provided in Codecademy, which I feel gave me knowledge that was more useful for developing complicated, interesting internet applications in the future.

For this assignment, I summarized each of the first 3 chapters of the book and included scripts that I created from following the tutorials in the book.