Building Chinese Web Sites Using PHP

This PHP tutorial book is a collection of tutorial notes and sample codes on building Chinese Web sites with PHP scripts and MySQL Server. The concepts presented can also be applied to other server side scripting languages and database servers. Topics include installing PHP, Apache Web Server and MySQL server; Creating dynamic Web pages with PHP scripts; Connecting to MySQL Server from PHP scripts; Creating database columns with different Chinese character sets/encodings; Transferring Chinese text from and to database in specific encoding; Displaying Chinese text in Web pages; Collecting Chinese text in Web input forms. Updated in 2022 (Version v2.23): Updated with PHP 7 and minor changes.