In this book, PHP 5's co-creator and two leading PHP developers show you how to make the most of PHP 5's industrial-strength enhancements in any project-no matter how large or complex. Their unique insights and realistic examples illuminate PHP 5's new object model, powerful design patterns, improved XML Web services support, and much more.
Whether you're creating web applications, extensions, packages, or shell scripts-or migrating PHP 4 code-here
are high-powered solutions you won't find anywhere else.
If you're a software developer new to PHP, you'll leap quickly into PHP and its new object-oriented capabilities.
If you're an experienced PHP programmer, you already recognize PHP's convenience and simplicity. Now, discover
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1 What is new in PHP 5?
2 PHP 5 basic language
3 PHP 5 OO language
4 PHP 5 advanced OOP and design patterns
5 How to write a Web application with PHP
6 Databases with PHP 5
7 Error handling
8 XML with PHP 5
9 Mainstream extensions
10 Using PEAR
etc.