Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a full year for $79. Formats Book Description A creative look at the fundamentals of PHP programming, this manual shows practical but atypical examples of PHP code. Theories, considerations, and varying options--such as binary protocols, character encoding or scaling PHP applications with messaging--are presented as new approaches to solving problems. Taking into consideration operating system level options, this programming reference goes beyond the basics to offer more advanced and innovative options for building PHP applications. A creative look at the fundamentals of PHP programming, this manual shows practical but atypical examples of PHP code. Theories, considerations, and varying options--such as binary protocols, character encoding or scaling PHP applications with messaging--are presented as new approaches to solving problems. Taking into consideration operating system level options, this programming reference goes beyond the basics to offer more advanced and innovative options for building PHP applications. Editorial Reviews Review This isn't your usual PHP book. Even advanced PHP developers don't have a book like this on their shelves as I've never read one that covers quite this variety of material. --blog.calevans.com/2010/12/28/book-repo\\... From the Author This book was written after working for several years as a consultant for Zend Technologies, prior to becoming our Technology Evangelist.  There are hundreds of "build a