3. Creating Dynamic Web Sites

In This Chapter

Including Multiple Files 76 Handling HTML Forms, Revisited 85 Making Sticky Forms 91 Creating Your Own Functions 95 Review and Pursue 110

With the fundamentals of PHP under your belt, it’s time to begin building truly dynamic Web sites. Dynamic Web sites, as opposed to the static ones on which the Web was first built, are easier to maintain, are more responsive to users, and can alter their content in response to differing situations. This chapter introduces three new ideas, all commonly used to create more sophisticated Web applications (Chapter 11, “Web Application Development,” covers another handful of topics along these same lines).