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TITLE
| | Beginning PHP4
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 1-861003-73-0
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Chris Ullman, Ganesh Prasad, Wankyu Choi
| | PUBLISHER
| | Wrox Press Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2000
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 2 and 3 [about levels]
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| SYNOPSIS |
PHP is a rapidly growing Web technology which enables web designers to build dynamic, interactive web applications, incorporating information from a host of databases, and including features such as e-mail integration and dynamically generated images. PHP4 added tons of features to make web application development even easier, and this book will show you how to make the most of the language's powerful capabilities. This book is a complete tutorial in PHP's language features and funtionality, beginning with the basics and building up to the design and construction of complex data-driven websites. Fully working examples in the book include a directory-style web search engine, a mailing list management system, a web based file editor, and a graphical online shopping mall guidebook.
What does this book cover?
- Complete tutorial in the PHP language
- Installation guide and troubleshooting tips
- Introduction to relational databases and MySQL
- Practical worked examples throughout, including detailed case study
- All code written for both Windows and UNIX systems
- Detailed language reference included
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Allan Kent | Allan has been programming seriously for the last 7 years and other than the single blemish when he achieved a Diploma in Cobol programming, is entirely self-taught. He started his career working at the local University and now runs his own company. Allan lives in Cape Town, South Africa with his girlfriend and 5 cats. | | Chris Lea | Chris Lea is one of the co-founders of Lucid Designs (http://www.luciddesigns.com), a Venice, CA based web design and development firm. He received a BS in Physics with Highest Honors and Distinction from UNC-CH in 1997, and has been hacking away with lots of (mostly open source) software since then. During his tenure with Lucid, he has worked on a wide variety of web site development projects ranging from the entertainment industry to the financial sector. When he's not staring at his monitor, you can usually find him swing dancing somewhere in the Los Angeles area. For more information, you can always check out his personal site at http://www.chrislea.com/. | | Chris Ullman | Chris Ullman is a Computer Science graduate who worked for Wrox Press for six and a half years before branching out on his own. Now a father of a 7-month-old baby, Nye, he divides his time between being a human punchbag for Nye, trying to write extra chapters with a baby on his lap, and in rare moments of spare time, either playing keyboards in psychedelic band the Bee Men, tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful co-existence and not violently mugging each other on the stairs or hoping against hope that this is the year his favorite soccer team, Birmingham City, can manage to end their exile from the Premier League. | | Ganesh Prasad | Ganesh has worked in IT for 13 years, specializing in applications software design and development, in a number of countries including India, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia. He currently works for Reply2 Ltd., Australia, an e-CRM service provider. His experience covers IBM mainframes, VAX and UNIX minis, as well as Windows client/server and Web-based programming. Interests include Java and Open Source software, and his hope is that Open Source software will bring cheap computing to the masses and kick-start Third World economies. He is an Australian citizen, and lives in Sydney with his wife Sashi and son Lalit. | | Wankyu Choi | Wankyu holds a Master's degree in English/Korean interpretation and translation from the Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation. He is the president/CEO of NeoQuest Communications, Inc. running a PHP-powered English language education portal (http://www.neoqst.com) in the Republic of Korea. He is independently working on an open source PHP project called NeoBoard (http://www.neoboard.net), a feature-rich web discussion board. |
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