Practical PHP & MySQL Cookbook: Step-by-Step Recipes for Building Database-Driven Websites and Applications

by Tyler Green

Practical PHP & MySQL Step-by-Step Recipes for Building Database-Driven Websites and Applications
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✅ Getting Started with PHP and MySQL: Setting up your development environment and mastering the basics.
✅ Database Operations: Learn how to perform CRUD operations on MySQL with PHP.
✅ Advanced PHP Techniques: Master object-oriented programming (OOP) and work with APIs
✅ Secure Your Web Applications: Implement authentication, data encryption, and prevention of SQL injections and XSS attacks.
✅ Optimizing MySQL Queries: Learn how to index, optimize, and profile queries for maximum performance.
✅ Building Dynamic Content: Create dynamic, data-driven websites using MySQL and PHP.
✅ User Authentication & Sessions: Secure your web applications with login systems and session management.
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169 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 21, 2026

About the author

Tyler Green is an award-winning critic and historian. He is the author of the forthcoming "Carleton Watkins: Making the West American," which will be published by University of California Press in October, and the producer and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, America's most popular audio program on art.

Tyler Green is an award-winning critic and historian. He is the author of “Carleton Watkins: Making the West American,” which will be published by University of California Press in October, and the producer and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, America's most popular audio program on art.

Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. “Watkins” tells the story of Watkins’s influence on the West, photography and art.

In 2014, the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) awarded Green one of its two inaugural awards for art criticism for his website Modern Art Notes. The award also included a citation for The MAN Podcast. (The other inaugural award was given to New York Times critic Holland Cotter.)

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, interview program, a "Fresh Air" for art. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee has called The MAN Podcast "one of the great archives of the art of our time." The BBC named the program one of the world's top 25 culture podcasts.

Since debuting in 2011, the show has aired over 360 weekly episodes. Guests have included artists Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, Sophie Calle, Julie Mehretu, Wayne Thiebaud, Thomas Struth, Kerry James Marshall, Frank Stella, Olafur Eliasson, Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Bradford, Chris Burden, Robert Adams, Shirin Neshat, and Barbara Kruger, historians such as Jonathan Brown and Sarah Lewis, and Pulitzer-winning authors/critics such as Smee, Mark Stevens and Paul Goldberger. Nearly twenty of America's most prominent art museums have advertised on the program, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, SFMOMA, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Between 2001 and 2014, Green's pioneering Modern Art Notes website featured original reporting, art criticism, and analyses of both art and non-profit art institutions. Newspapers such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal all credited MAN with breaking stories that they later covered. The WSJ called Modern Art Notes "the most influential of all visual arts blogs," and later wrote, "You won't find a better-informed art writer than Tyler Green." MAN was the first website to feature original, digitally published art journalism and criticism.

Green has written for many print and digital magazines, including New York Times Lens, Fortune, Conde Nast Portfolio and Smithsonian. He also spent a year as Bloomberg's art critic. From 2010-2014 he was the columnist for Modern Painters magazine.

Green has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the WSJ. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Books featuring his work include "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360: Views on the Collection," a forthcoming David Maisel monograph, and a 2018 Anne Appleby exhibition catalogue published by the Tacoma (Wash.) Art Museum.