PHP Game Programming offers you the introduction you need to begin creating your own online games. You'll be amazed at the-games you can create with this powerful-and completely free-development tool! Dive right in as you begin with coverage of server configuration and the major features of PHP. Then you're off and running as you use PHP to create and manipulate graphics, develop a chess game using a non-relational database, and send and receive data through sockets. Put your new skills to use as you create your own massively multiplayer online game! From the basics of PHP and HTML to the exciting task of creating dynamic terrain and Flash movies, PHP Game Programming will help you turn your online game ideas into reality!

Are you ready to:

• Create your first PHP page?
• Learn what you can do with arithmetic logic?
• Master the finer points of arrays as you create your first game?
• Incorporate non-relational databases into your games?
• See where you can go from here?