PHP and MySQL remain the two most popular open-source Web development technologies. In PHP and MySQL Web Development, the authors share their experience with PHP and MySQL without reservation. This book is a definitive guide to building database-driven Web applications using PHP and MySQL, and has been a best-seller for more than a decade.

Database Application Builder is an excellent database application rapid development tool designed for beginner developers on Windows, created by Longtion Software. It enables user to easily and simply create database-powered local and web applications. You can use it to design an application that displays data to your users, and allow them to enter new information or modify existing data, allowing user to interact with the information stored in the database.

Burp Suite (Burp for short) is a well-known and popular integrated tools platform that is used to perform security penetration tests for web applications (actually it's more commonly used for hacking activities such as web attacks), written in Java, developed by PortSwigger from United Kingdom.

The Rails framework (formerly the MVC framework, AKA: Ruby on Rails) was put forward by David Heinemeier Hansson from Denmark for the first time in 2004. Different from any existing complex, ivory-towered Web development frameworks at that time, Rails is more in line with actual needs and more efficient. It combines the advantages of PHP system (rapid development) and Java system (structured programming). As a consequence, Rails received extensive attention in the industry not long after it was proposed.