• 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

• 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...

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 3 Ratings

Selection of Best Howtos - 2003-02-03
Reviewer Rating:
You need this book just after understanding the basic concept of PHP, and start to apply it to a real website. How to connect to database(s); how to put in dynamic graphics; how to manage sessions like in e-commerce sites. Windows and Linux are included in discussion.
A real treasure for me.

Don't know about advanced - 2006-03-09
Reviewer Rating:
I suppose it depends on your point of view. I picked PHP a couple of months ago (built on top of long experience in other languages) - and I wanted something with a bit of bite in it, and while there were somethings I found interesting, I don't know whether advanced is a really applicable.

If you're moving from, say, HTML development into PHP, I would actually recommend this. It covers a nice range of topics - certainly pointing you in the right direction for PHP development.

If you want a good solid reference for the best way to do particular 'advanced' applications - maybe not.

My copy was printed with the cover on the wrong side - so having to read it backwards made it tricky. But I'm left-handed, so I'm used to it.

Not so advanced - 2006-06-20
Reviewer Rating:
I found few interesting things in the book, general topics that is necessary for intermediate/new to php. I do not particularly agree with the word "advanced" however I do think this book should be one of the first to visit by web professionnal new in php.

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