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Converse - PHP5 and MySQL Bible (Wiley, 2004)

What Is PHP? 

PHP is an open-source, server-side, HTML-embedded Web-scripting language that is compatible with all the major Web servers (most notably Apache). PHP enables you to embed code fragments in normal HTML pages — code that is interpreted as your pages are served up to users. PHP also serves as a “glue” language, making it easy to connect your Web pages to server-side databases. 

Why PHP?

 We devote nearly all of Chapter 1 to this question. The short answer is that it’s free, it’s open source, it’s full featured, it’s cross-platform

 New PHP5 features 

Although much of PHP4’s functionality survives unchanged in PHP5, there have been some deep changes. Among the ones we cover are: 

• Zend Engine 2 and the new object model, with support for private/protected members, abstract classes, and interfaces 
• PHP5’s completely reworked XML support, built around libmxl2
• Exceptions and exception handling

Whom This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who wants to build Web sites that exhibit more complex behavior than is possible with static HTML pages. Within that population, we had the following three particular audiences in mind:

• Web site designers who know HTML and want to move into creating dynamic Web sites
• Experienced programmers (in C, Java, Perl, and so on) without Web experience who want to quickly get up to speed in server-side Web programming
• Web programmers who have used other server-side technologies (Active Server Pages, Java Server Pages, or ColdFusion, for example) and want to upgrade or simply add another tool to their kit.

We assume that the reader is familiar with HTML and has a basic knowledge of the workings of the Web, but we do not assume any programming experience beyond that. To help save time for more experienced programmers, we include a number of notes and asides that compare PHP with other languages and indicate which chapters and sections may be safely skipped. Finally, see our appendixes, which offer specific advice for C programmers, ASP coders, and pure-HTML designers

So, here is the freakin' book

Converse - PHP5 and MySQL Bible (Wiley, 2004)