Ebook - Advanced PHP for Web Professionals

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• Build complex, PHP-driven Web sites—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...

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