Providing an end-to-end view of how modern web applications are built, Dynamic Web Application Development takes a cohesive approach to building a software architecture from core components. It tells a development story by taking you right through from analysis and design, learning the core technologies, and tying them together using standard tools patterns and frameworks without straying into detail or trying to cover too many alternatives.Using PHP scripting and the MySQL database management system, this is a contemporary and well targeted coverage of important areas of web application development including Ajax, , adaptive markup, web application frameworks, standards and conformance, accessibility and security issues. It shows you how to build functionality into a website using a variety of technologies. These will work as a basic framework from which you will be able to explore more challenging developments such as porting applications to mobile devices and including more Web 2.0 features. An ideal text for web programming courses, this book will help you whether you are a student or need to reskill and want a dependable and accessible self-study package.

1. Introduction to Web Applications 2. Web Application Requirements Analysis and Design 3. Structure and Content in the Presentation Layer: The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 4. Styling in the Presentation Layer: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 5. Content, Structure and Validation: XML, DTD and XHTML 6. Introduction to JavaScript 7. Interactive JavaScript: Dynamic HTML, client side validation and Ajax 8. Introduction to PHP 9. Flow of Control 10. Form Interaction 11. Strings and Arrays 12. Files, Cookies, Sessions and Email 13. Functions, Dates and Times and Redirection 14. Databases 15. Linking PHP to a Database 16. Introducing Object Orientation 17. Object Oriented Inheritance and Polymorphism 18. Combining Ajax and PHP - Making the Web more Dynamic 19. Conformance to Standards and Accessibility 20. Building More Secure and Robust Web Applications