Chapter 5. Developing Web Applications

Once you have been programming for a while it becomes rare that you work on anything that consists of only one or two simple scripts. PHP is best used for dynamic Web applications, which means dozens of pages, security, user registration, administration, sending emails, and more. In the past four chapters you have learned about a number of issues at the heart of advanced PHP programming, including object-oriented programming, databases, and security. In this chapter, you will put all of that information together, as well as learn a few new things.

The Web application that will be developed here will be a generic community-sharing type of place, similar to America Online's Groups pages. Users will be able ...

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