Chapter 5. Basic Web Application Strategies

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Chapter 4, "Web Application Concepts," describes the fundamental differences between Web applications and stand-alone scripts, and shows methods to solve the most basic problem—session management. This chapter explores strategies to deal with other common issues that arise when working on larger projects. While we will present solutions that we've found to be time-saving, effective, and easy to implement, we encourage you to evaluate whether they really fit your needs—the chapter is titled "Web Application Strategies" and not "Web ...

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