Introducing PHP; Configuring Your Environment; PHP Basics; Functions; Arrays; Object-Oriented PHP; Advanced OOP Features; Error and Exception Handling; Strings and Regular Expressions; Working with the File and Operating System; PEAR; Date and Time; Forms; Authenticating Your Users; Handling File Uploads; Networking; PHP and LDAP; Session Handlers; Templating with Smarty; Web Services; Secure PHP Programming; SQLite; Building Web Sites for the World; MVC and the Zend Framework; Introducing MySQL; Installing and Configuring MySQL; The Many MySQL Clients; MySQL Storage Engines and Datatypes
Summary
Gilmore offers a comprehensive introduction to the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server. Updated to introduce the features found in MySQLs most significant release to date, this volume shows how to take advantage of the latest features of both technologies to build powerful, manageable, and stable Web applications
