What the Book Covers: This book is designed to provide a comprehensive guide and resource for the LAMP web development tools (Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL database structure and PHP). This book will help the LAMP professional take his/her skills to the next level with in-depth discussions of OOP, extensions of PHP such as PEAR, GD, XML, and CURL, improving site security, and advanced tools available to the coder. This book will also assist those proficient in other languages such as Java, C++, Perl and ASP, in converting to the LAMP environment. This book is based on PHP 5.0 and the most updated versions of Apache and MySQL. All code is XHTML-CSS compliant.
Website: The website includes sample scripts created in the course of each chapter, and several real-world applications that can be modified and reused.
Chapter 1 What's new in PHP5? 1
Chapter 2 PHP5 OOP 19
Chapter 3 More obscure PHP 47
Chapter 4 Advanced MySQL 73
Chapter 5 PHP configuration 105
Chapter 6 Apache tricks 129
Chapter 7 Site security 165
Chapter 8 PEAR and PECL 183
Chapter 9 Code efficiency 199
Chapter 10 PHP extensions
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