Wicked Cool PHP

INTRODUCTION

This book is for the developer who has stumbled on to PHP and wants to know how to get things done. You should know the basics of programming, and chances are you've seen many online code samples. But you may be wondering why some examples are much more complicated than others when they do the same thing.

Care has been taken to keep the examples in this book as simple as possible and to explain as much as possible about every piece of code. To keep client and server code confusion to a minimum, there isn't much JavaScript here. Everyone's impatient, so Chapter 1, "The FAQs of Life—The Scripts Every PHP Programmer Wants (or Needs) ...