Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0672319241, Paperback)

PHP has rapidly established itself as an extremely popular open-source server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages for e-Commerce and other Web applications. It runs on any Web server, and it offers a simple, intuitive, and universal solution for easy-to-program dynamic Web pages.

The latest version of PHP is a major new release that includes a new scripting engine which greatly improves the object model, adds exception handling, and provides a much better infrastructure for the integration of external technologies like Java or .NET.

This version of PHP requires significant changes in the way most Web developers approach their programming tasks, and the PHP Developer's Cookbook shows how to accomplish these common PHP taskes using the new version. The main content of the book is presented in a problem and solution format, logically organized on a topic-by-topic basis. Each question specifies a goal, and the following text provides a detailed solution that achieves the stated goal along with any additional related information.