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• PHP documentation is available in many languages.
  
  
• MySQL documentation is also available.
  
  
• Read "Connecting PHP applications to IBM DB2 Universal Database."
  
  
• Check out "Connecting PHP Applications to Apache Derby."
  
  
• Don't miss "Develop IBM Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database applications with PHP."
  
  
• For information about PHP with MySQL, read "Creating dynamic Web sites with PHP and MySQL."
  
  
• "Using HTML forms with PHP" covers some additional issues not discussed in this tutorial.
  
  
• Visit IBM developerWorks' PHP project resources to learn more about PHP.
  
  
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Table of contents

• Before you start
• Basic PHP syntax
• PHP and forms
• Functions
• Connecting to and using MySQL
• Cleaning up: including files
• Summary
• Resources
• About the authors

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