10 Web Application Development

The preceding two chapters focus on using PHP and MySQL together (which is, after all, the primary point of this book). But there’s still a lot of PHP-centric material to be covered. Taking a quick break from using PHP with MySQL, this chapter covers a handful of techniques that are often used in more complex Web applications.

The first topic covered in this chapter is sending email using PHP. It’s a very common thing to do and is surprisingly simple (assuming that the server is properly set up). After that, the chapter touches upon some of the date and time functions present in PHP. The third subject demonstrates how to handle file uploads in an HTML form. This in turn leads to a discussion of using PHP ...

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