Beginning PHP5, Apache, MySQL Web Development by Elizabeth Naramore, Michael K. Glass, Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz, Jason Gerner

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Synopsis

PHP5, Apache and MySQL are some of the most popular open-source technologies for active web servers. In this comprehensive guide, the authors assume readers have very limited experience with the concepts, and so start with configuring the installation of all three programs. They then step through using the programs, including creating PHP pages with PHP5 and using PHP5 with MySQL, suing tables to display data, letting the user work with data, and letting the user edit the database. They show how to build databases, send email, personalize, and create an online store. Rather than working from theory to practice, the authors start with a project such as a comic book or movie and describe features that apply. They include a number of quick references in the appendix. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biography

Elizabeth Naramore graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a degree in Organizational Behavior and has been a Web developer since 1997. Her main focus is in e-commerce, but she develops sites across numerous industries. She is currently a moderator at PHPBuilder.com, an online help center for PHP. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two children, and looks forward to someday returning to Miami to get her Masters in Computer Science.

Jason “goldbug” Gerner currently spends his days working as a Web developer in Cincinnati and burns free time complaining about lack of support for Web standards and abusing XML. He can often be found lurking in the PHPBuilder.com discussion forums, waiting to chime in with nagging comments about CSS or code efficiency.

Yann “Bunkermaster” Le Scouarnec is the senior developer for Jolt Online Gaming, a British gaming company. He is a moderator at PHPBuilder.com and a developer of open source PHP software for the gaming community. He has also worked for major software corporations as a software quality expert.

Jeremy “stolzyboy” Stolz is a Web Developer at J&M Companies, Inc. (www.jmcompanies.com), a print company in Fargo, North Dakota. Jeremy is primarily a PHP/MySQL developer, but he has also worked with many other languages. When not working, he frequents the Internet and tries to keep his programming skills sharp and up to date. He is a contributor to and moderator at PHPBuilder.com.

Michael “BuzzLY” Glass has been a gladiator in the software/Web site development arena for more than eight years. He has more than ten years ofcommercial programming experience with a wide variety of technologies, including PHP, Java, Lotus Domino, and Vignette StoryServer. He divides his time between computer programming, playing pool in the APA, and running his Web site at www.ultimatespin.com. You can usually find him slinking around on the PHPBuilder.com forums, where he is a moderator with the nickname BuzzLY.