Laura Thomson is director of engineering at Mozilla Corporation. She was formerly a principal at both OmniTI and Tangled Web Design, and she has worked for RMIT University and the Boston Consulting Group. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science) degree and a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) degree with honors.
Luke Welling is a software engineer and regularly speaks on open source and web development topics at conferences such as OSCON, ZendCon, MySQLUC, PHPCon, OSDC, and LinuxTag. He has worked for OmniTI, for the web analytics company Hitwise.com, at the database vendor MySQL AB, and as an independent consultant at Tangled Web Design. He has taught computer science at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science) degree.
Part I: Using PHP
1 PHP Crash Course
2 Storing and Retrieving Data
3 Using Arrays
4 String Manipulation and Regular Expressions
5 Reusing Code and Writing Functions
6 Object-Oriented PHP
7 Error and Exception Handling
Part II: Using MySQL
8 Designing Your Web Database
9 Creating Your Web Database
10 Working with Your MySQL Database
11 Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP
12 Advanced MySQL Administration
13 Advanced MySQL Programming
Part III: Web Application Security
14 Web Application Security Risks
15 Building a Secure Web Application
16 Implementing Authentication Methods with PHP
Part IV: Advanced PHP Techniques
17 Interacting with the File System and the Server
18 Using Network and Protocol Functions
19 Managing the Date and Time
20 Internationalization and Localization
21 Generating Images
22 Using Session Control in PHP
23 Integrating JavaScript and PHP
24 Other Useful Features
Part V: Building Practical PHP and MySQL Projects
25 Using PHP and MySQL for Large Projects
26 Debugging and Logging
27 Building User Authentication and Personalization
Part VI: Appendix
A Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL"
1. The definitive, best-selling book on combining these two open source tools to create dynamic Web sited -- updated for PHP 7 and MySQL 5.7
2. Clear, practical, down to earth, and now extensively updated for today's best practices
3. Includes a brand-new chapter on PHP cloud development, plus all-new mobile web app projects
4. Now focuses on security issues throughout, and contains an all-new chapter on Web security
5. Adds new coverage of using the indispensable PEAR repository of PHP extensions and applications