2. Developing Web Applications

The career of a PHP programmer normally starts with writing individual scripts, each dedicated to a single purpose. From there you begin using more and more files, building up Web applications. Eventually you might develop sites on your own server and, if you’re lucky, balanced over multiple servers. No matter how large your projects are, learning new and improved ways to develop Web applications is an important part of the life of the PHP programmer.

In this chapter, the focus is on developing Web applications beyond the beginner or intermediate level. We begin with an explanation of how to modularize ...

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