PROGRAMMING PHP

Detailed information on the basics os the PHP language, including data types, variables, operators, and flow-control statements; Separate chapters on the fundamental topics of functions, strings, arrays, and objects; Coverage of common PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies; Material on interacting with relational databases, such as My-SQL and Oracle, using the database-independent PEAR DB library; Chapters on generating dynamic images, creating PDF files, and parsing XML, files with PHP; Advanced topics such as creating secure scripts, error handling, performance tunning, and writing your own C language extensions to PHP; A handy quick reference to all the core functions in PHP and all the standard extensions that ship with PHP; Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator and lead developer of PHP. Kevin Tatroe is a software consultant.