<i>PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web</i>

When Peachpit Press published Larry Ullman’s PHP for the World Wide Web Visual QuickStart Guide in 2001, I had a major complaint about it. It did not include anything about sessions and session management, one of the most awaited components of the PHP 4.x update, while every other beginning and intermediate book on PHP covered sessions in some form.
With the release of Ullman’s PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web Visual QuickPro Guide you now have a complete PHP book in two volumes, one that will easily take you beyond forms, cookies and sessions into the beginnings of E-commerce, web applications and the more esoteric aspects of scripting such as on-the-fly PDF and graphics generation.
PHP is renown amongst Web programmers as being the fastest to learn and easiest to use Web scripting language, as well as the one that runs the fastest, and of course as an Open Source product it comes absolutely free. Compared to other such languages such as ASP, JSP and Cold Fusion, PHP is the one that has proven least daunting to non-programming Web designers.
Combine that with the Visual QuickStart and Visual QuickPro Guides’ step-by-step words and pictures format and you have a winning combination. Web scripting users tend to do pretty much the same kinds of things in pretty much the same kinds of projects, and both books have those needs well covered. PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web and PHP for the World Wide Web may be the only PHP books you will need.

The Book:

Title: PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web
Author: Larry Ullman
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 500
Illustrations: Monochrome
CD-ROM: No
Source Code: www.dmcinsights.com/phpadv/
ISBN: 0201775972
Rating: 4

The Chapters:

Advanced PHP Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Databases
Security
Developing Web Applications
E-commerce
Networking with PHP
PHP and the Server
XML and PHP
Image Generation
Creating PDFs
Extending PHP
Appendix A: Installation
Appendix B: Databases
Appendix C: General Resources