You Want to Do What with PHP?

A creative look at the fundamentals of PHP programming, this manual shows practical but atypical examples of PHP code. Theories, considerations, and varying options—such as binary protocols, sharing data, extending PHP with Java, and scaling PHP applications with messaging—are presented as new approaches to solving problems. Taking into consideration operating system level options, this programming reference goes beyond the basics to offer more advanced and innovative options for building PHP applications.

Kevin Schroeder is the technical consultant for Zend Technologies, where he works on small and large web application deployments and is the primary subject-matter expert for their training courses. He has developed production software using PHP and several other languages and has extensive experience in system administration on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. He is the coauthor of The IBM i Programmer's Guide to PHP. He lives in Dallas, Texas.