This book aims to demonstrate the the versatility of PHP for the development of large-scale web applications. This book will be code heavy with case studies spanning the feature rich functionality of PHP coupled with HTML, XML, and WML.
The PHP programming techniques are be presented in such a manner that readers would be able to extrapolate the techniques (from both the theory and the case studies) for their own applications.
Raj Kumar Dash, aka Roo Hoo, is a computer consultant, freelance writer, and delusionally aspiring composer. He thanks his high school math and computer teacher Mr. Hamer, for the encouragement, and his parents for his existence, without which his portion of this book would have taken on some other form in the cosmic scheme of things.
Matt Anton (LAMP is literally his middle name) is a computer consultant and freelance writer. He has worked as a co-author on Professional Apache 2.0 and Professional PHP4 XML from Wrox Press. His technology interests include XML, Mac OS X, J2EE technologies, and other web site deployment issues
Bryan Waters, a freelance software developer specializing in web-based corporate information systems. He uses PHP, ASP, C++, and Java with database servers such as SQL Server, SQL Anywhere, and MySQL to develop distributed, stand-alone and CD-ROM software for the Medical, Hospitality, and Education industries. He has authored several books on technologies like MFC and OLE 2 and published articles in various trade magazines.
Alison Gianotto (better known in many dubious circles as "snipe") has been a professional geek for 8 years, and has been working with PHP for approximately 4 years. Prior to moving to San Diego to accept the position of technical director at a prominent web development firm, she taught advanced web programming and computer graphics in Brooklyn, NY.
Jo Henrik Endrerud is a developer currently living in Skien, Norway.Jo Henrik is a long time Linux developer, currently working on the Open Source content management system: eZ publish. He has been working on projects ranging from small company websites to multilingual sites with hundreds of thousand of articles, where he has done everything from systems integration to project management.
Daniel Solin is a technical writer, reviewer, consultant, and programmer and Linux?enthusiast from Sweden. He has been programming Linux applications and web pages since 1994, and has in this time obtained a broad experience of most technologies used in these areas. When it comes to writing, Daniel has written a book about developing applications using Qt, a C++ GUI library, and he has also been a co-author for several books about Linux. From time to time, he also writes articles about bleeding-edge web development or programming in general. For the last two years, Daniel has been developing various software for one of Europe's largest ISPs.
Jon Stephens is American technical writer, reviewer, and site developer now living and working in Australia. He works with a number of web technologies, including PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, XML, and ASP (occasionally). He's co-authored 5 previous books on various topics in Web development; this is his third for Wrox Press. Jon was a community leader at the Builder Buzz web development forums for several years, and is now a co-administrator for the new HiveMinds.Info project.
