num_pages: 974
description: PHP is an open source, server-side HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Outside of being browser-independent, it offers a simple and universal cross-platform solution for e-commerce, complex web, and database-driven applications. Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding - among other things - FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming. What does this book cover? The whys and wherefores of PHP4PHP installation on *nix, Windows, and MacOS XSessions and cookies, coding FTP clients, network-related function calls, and directory servicesPHP support for LDAPMulti-tiered development using PHPPHP's interaction with XMLPHP with MySQLPHP with PostgreSQL and ODBCSecuring, optimizing, and internationalizing PHP applicationsPHP extension librariesA real world employee directory, an online library application, and a GTK interface to the applicationCase studies on a user privilege system and a multi-tiered WML-based shopping cart
language: English
title: Professional PHP4 Programming
titlecomplete: Professional PHP4 Programming
ratings_count: 16
publisher: WROX PRESS @