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Description of PHP Unleashed

The PHP language is in use today at over 12 million Internet domains worldwide, and continues to grow in popularity at an astonishing rate of almost 400,000 domains a month. The latest version, PHP 5, is expected to reach final form in 2004. It is a significant new release that speeds up performance, improves XML and streams support, and includes many new functions. PHP 5 increases the appeal of PHP to serious programmers who have not used it before, and it requires current PHP users to re-learn many things as to how they have approached PHP in the past. PHP Unleashed provides a complete, practical, and authoritative guide for both the experienced programmer who is considering PHP for the first time and the current PHP user who wants to learn more about PHP 5 and how to fully exploit all its new capabilities. The book begins with a detailed summary of the basics, and then quickly moves on to more advanced topics such as working with data, outputting graphical data, interacting with messaging servers, and building complete applications.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780672325113

Pages:

840 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

165647

Publisher:

Pearson Education (US)

Published:

30/11/2003

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About John Coggeshall

John Coggeshall is a recognized expert in the PHP community. He is a columnist for the Zend Technologies Web site and the O'Reilly Network's onlamp.com. He is also a professional PHP developer who has worked with several large organizations. His column at Zend, called "The Code Gallery Spotlight," focuses on explanations of complex pieces of code that are submitted to the code gallery at Zend.com. The O'Reilly column is for those with no Web development experience and describes PHP from the ground up.