# Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (October 29, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0130085391
# ISBN-13: 978-0130085399

From the Back Cover

   * Build complex, PHP-driven Web sitesв€”fast!
   * Discover powerful new PHP techniques, hands on!
   * Learn all-new techniques based on PHP-GTK and PEAR::DB
   * Master XML parsing, user authentication, forms processing, data mining, and much more

Take your PHP programming skills to the next level!

In this concise, hands-on tutorial, PHP expert Christopher Cosentino delivers dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Through professional-quality examples drawn from his six years as a PHP developer, Cosentino walks you through building friendlier, more usable sites; improving user authentication; generating dynamic graphics; parsing XML documents; building database-independent Web applications; and much more!

Take PHP to the limit... and beyond!

   * Manage sessions more effectively
   * Interact with multiple databases via PEAR::DB
   * Improve your form processing scripts
   * Parse large files and perform data mining
   * Authenticate users by IP address, database query, or HTTP authentication
   * Create custom error handlers
   * Dump database contents into XML files
   * Use PHP-GTK to build client-side cross-platform GUI applications
   * And more...



About the Author

CHRISTOPHER COSENTINO is currently a technical writer for Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been a freelance Web developer since 1996, specializing in the use of PHP to build e-commerce applications. He is author of Essential PHP for Web Professionals (Prentice Hall PTR).