Finally, the web host you choose should support PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). This shouldn’t be a problem, as most popular hosting services these days are compatible with this type of language.

6. The web server passes the HTML back to the browser, where the user can see the list of books she requested. Now you have an existing MySQL database, so you can write the PHP code to perform the ...

We’ll assume that you have set up and have a running Apache Web server. If not, refer to the articles, Setting up Web servers (page 106) and Configuring Apache Web Server (page 81) in PCQuest’s June ...