Publisher's Synopsis
PHP 4 is a complete re-write rather than just an inconsequential upgrade and the speed and performance of PHP has been significantly enhanced by up to 75 percent. PHP plays a major role in the World Wide Web arena and due to the Open source nature of the product it is here to stay.;The primary aim of this book is to enable web developers to create state of the art web applications. Developing a basic web application is a simple matter that can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time. However, developing complex applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and can connect to back-end network and multi-tiered applications is an extremely difficult task. This classic multi-author Wrox book goes beyond being a pretty enumeration of the manual to tackle the advanced concepts required to build successful large web applications.
