If you were traveling in Spain, but couldn't speak Spanish very well, you'd probably carry a Spanish dictionary with you. If you are a PHP developer who needs a portable reference guide for frequent use in your job, the PHP Phrasebook is perfect for you. The PHP Phrasebook is actually a pocket guide that is jam-packed with useful and essential PHP code "phrases" for the PHP developer's everyday use. The code is flexible, so it can be easily adapted to your needs and mulitple situations, and your time isn't wasted wading through chapters of tutorial lessons and extraneous information. The phrasebook covers PHP 5 and is relevant for PHP 4.

Includes unique object-oriented coverage!

Complete instructions for building real-world Web applications, with all code on CD

Create six practical applications — two user login-in apps, online catalog, shopping cart, content management system, and Web forum — both in procedural and object-oriented programming. Incorporate the apps into your Web site right away by following the easy directions. The apps are not just snippets, but neatly assembled packages with real-world functionality!

Discover how to

• Design and build two types of user login apps
• Restrict Web site access
• Build an online shopping cart and catalog
• Allow users to publish documents online
• Manage mailing lists
• Let users post messages on an online bulletin board

Guide for intermediate to advanced level developers, showing how PHP applications can be developed by keeping security considerations in focus. Shows how to take advantage of an object-oriented approach to PHP programming to develop highly maintainable, extensible applications for Web and intranet use. Includes index. Softcover.

Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style.
PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years
PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases
Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP's features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks.

Don?t spend your time wading through manuals to learn PHP 5. Spend it doing what you do best?creating web pages! With "PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development" you can get up and running with PHP 5, Apache, and MySQL with ease. By the time you?re finished, you?ll be able to display dynamic content, build your own contact management system, create custom reports, work with XML, and much more. Less time, less effort, more results!

About the Author
Julie Meloni is the Technical Director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA. She's been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish. She is the author of "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition" (Premier Press, 193184187X).