Now revised to cover features found in PHP4 and PHP5, this new edition shows Web developers step by step how to create dynamic, data-driven Web applications. Two-color screen shots accompanied by concise callouts demonstrate how to tackle more than 100 key PHP tasks, including using cookies to monitor the activity of Web site visitors, retrieving information from MySQL or other databases, creating images and Web pages on the fly, and processing XML documents. Shows how to use PHP with Apache Web server, process data forms, access data files, troubleshoot PHP scripts, and migrate scripts to PHP5. A companion Web site features a fully searchable e-version of the book, plus all code that appears in the text-ready to plug into users' Web pages

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PHP 5: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content

By Toby Boudreaux

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 150 key PHP 5 techniques, including:

• Setting file and folder permissions
• Using interfaces
• Writing object-oriented code
• Processing data in forms
• Using cookies to manage visitors
• Working with databases using MySQLi and SQLite
• Migrating scripts to PHP 5
• Parsing XML files using DOM
• Transforming XML with XSLT
• Troubleshooting PHP scripts

Book Details

• ISBN-10: 0764583328
• ISBN-13: 978-0764583322
• Publisher: Visual (May 27, 2005)
• 320 pages