tailieunhanh - PHP A Beginner’s Guide

No matter which way you cut it, PHP is pretty amazing: a language strung together by volunteer programmers that today has the enviable distinction of being in use on more than a third of the planet’s Web servers. Flexible, scalable, extensible, stable, open—PHP is all of these and more, which is why it’s one of the most popular programming toolkits in the world. Ask me why I like PHP, though, and my reason has nothing to do with any of the preceding buzzwords and everything to do with how friendly and nonthreatening the language is. There’s no tortuous syntax or obfuscated code in the average PHP. | Vikram Vaswani Covers PHP PHP Foreword by Cal Evans Editor-in-Chief Zend Developer Zone Covers Syntax Data structures XML External packages MySQL Security Third-party extensions And more PHP A Beginner s Guide About the Author Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire a consultancy firm with special expertise in open-source tools and technologies. He is a passionate proponent of the open-source movement and frequently contributes articles and tutorials on open-source technologies including Perl Python PHP MySQL and Linux to the community at large. His previous books include MySQL The Complete Reference How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL and PHP Programming Solutions . Vikram has over ten years of experience working with PHP and MySQL as an application developer. He is the author of Zend Technologies PHP 101 series for PHP beginners and he has extensive experience deploying PHP in a variety of different environments including corporate intranets high-traffic Internet Web sites and mission-critical thin client applications . A Felix Scholar at the University of Oxford England Vikram combines his interest in Web application development with various other activities. When not dreaming up plans for world domination he amuses himself by reading crime fiction watching old movies playing squash blogging and keeping an eye out for unfriendly Agents. Read more about him and PHP A Beginner s Guide at . About the Technical Editor Chris Cornutt has been involved in the PHP community for more than eight years. Soon after discovering the language he started up his news site to share the latest happenings and opinions from other PHPers around the world. Chris has written for PHP publications such as php architect and the International PHP Magazine on topics ranging from geocoding to trackbacks. He is also a coauthor of PHP .