Introducing PHP -- Configuring Your Environment -- PHP Basics -- Functions -- Arrays -- Object-Oriented PHP -- Advanced OOP Features -- Error and Exception Handling -- Strings and Regular Expressions -- Working with the File and Operating System -- PEAR -- Date and Time -- Working with HTML Forms -- Authenticating Your Users -- Handling File Uploads -- Networking -- PHP and LDAP -- Session Handlers -- Templating with Smarty -- Web Services -- Securing Your Web Site -- Creating Ajax-enhanced Features with jQuery and PHP -- Building Web Sites for the World -- Introducing the Zend Framework -- Introducing MySQL -- Installing and Configuring MySQL -- The Many MySQL Clients -- MySQL Storage Engines and Data Types -- Securing MySQL -- Using PHP with MySQL -- Introducing PDO -- Stored Routines -- MySQL Triggers -- MySQL Views -- Practical Database Queries -- Indexes and Searching -- Transactions -- Importing and Exporting Data.

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Fourth Edition is a major update of W. Jason Gilmore's authoritative book on PHP and MySQL. The fourth edition includes complete coverage of PHP 5.3 features, including namespacing, an update of AMP stack installation and configuration, updates to Zend Framework, coverage of MySQL Workbench, and much more. You'll not only receive extensive introductions to the core features of PHP, MySQL, and related tools, but you'll also learn how to effectively integrate them in order to build robust data-driven applications. Gilmore has seven years of experience working with these technologies, and he has packed this book with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers. Accordingly, you will repeatedly return to this book as both a valuable instructional tool and reference guide.