Preface Preface Welcome to PHP! This book has been written to be as comprehensive and as accessible as a book on PHP can be. It puts the power of PHP to work for you, pushing the envelope as far as it can go. The best way to learn any topic like PHP is by example, and this is an example-oriented book. You ll find dozens of tested examples here, ready to go to work. PHP is quickly gaining popularity these days. Web page authors are requiring more and more power, and PHP is the answer. Not content to simply handle web pages in browsers any more, people are turning to the server side to do things you just can t do in a browser. Using PHP, you have total control over your web applications and the good part is that they re not any harder to write than a typical web page. PHP is an amazing package, and you re getting into it at the right time, when the excitement level is soaring. You ll see more PHP here than in any similar book, doing things you won t see other places, such as drawing images on-the-fly on the server and then sending them back to the browser. Who Should Read This Book? This book is for you if you truly want to develop all the power of web applications. If you want to start using cookies instead of just having your browser accept them, if you want to handle buttons, text fields, check boxes and more in your web pages, if you want to track users with sessions, or if you want to connect to a database on the server, then look no further. This book lets you take control of the server side of things. In addition, this book is specially written so that you don t need a lot of experience to use it. The only real requirement for this book is familiarity with HTML. You don t need to be an HTML expert, but you ll need to know some.

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