Advanced PHP for Web Professionals

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!

• 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...

Contents

1. PHP Review
2. Session Management
3. Multiple Database Interaction
4. Better Form Processing
5. Using What You Have Learned - A Simple Shopping Cart
6. Working With Files
7. PHP Authentication Schemes
8. Error Management
9. Using What You Have Learned - A Meeting Tracker Application
10. PHP and XML
11. Generating Dynamic Graphics with PHP
12. PHPGTK