If you've ever wanted to learn how to develop web applications for mobile devices, Beginning Web Development for Smartphones is for you This book will lead you through all the code necessary for a sample bookstore application using PHP, MySQL, and jQTouch. The book covers: * Building small applications with jQTouch * Change themes, adding panels, displaying titles automatically, highlighting information * Getting user's information through forms * Applying validity checks to input fields * Understanding navigation via panel and toolbar buttons * Introduction to PHP programming, AJAX technology, and MySQL commands * Accessing MySQL from PHP * Understanding client- and server-side databases * Creating client-side database tables * Inserting, fetching, and updating rows in server- and client-side databases * Querying server-side database tables * Understanding session management, localStorage, and sessionStorage