Dave W. Mercer & Allan Kent 
Beginning PHP5 [PDF ebook] 

Introduction.
Chapter 1: Getting Up and Running.
Chapter 2: Writing Simple Programs.
Chapter 3: PHP, HTML, and State.
Chapter 4: Decisions, Loops, and Arrays.
Chapter 5: Robust and Healthy Code.
Chapter 6: Writing High-Quality Code.
Chapter 7: Files and Directories.
Chapter 8: XML.
Chapter 9: An Introduction to Databases and SQL.
Chapter 10: Retrieving Data from My SQL Using PHP.
Chapter 11: Using PHP to Manipulate Data in My SQL.
Chapter 12: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.
Chapter 13: Working with UML and Classes.
Chapter 14: PEAR.
Chapter 15: PHP5 and E-Mail.
Chapter 16: Generating Graphics.
Chapter 17: Case Study: A PHP Logging Agent.
Appendix A: Answers.
Appendix B: PHP Functions Reference.
Appendix C: Using SQLite.
Appendix D: ODBC.
Appendix E: PHP CLI.
Appendix F: Configuring PHP5.
Index.

Dave W. Mercer has 15 years’ experience in industrial
and process engineering, and systems analysis, and is CTO for a
B2B, responsible for the development and deployment of online
automated business services. His entire site hosting server, and
the applications he builds for hosted clients are programmed in PHP
using Postgres or My SQL as the database.
Allan Kent is a PHP programmer who runs his own company
and is a co-author of Beginning PHP 4. Alan has been
programming seriously for the past dozen years and, other than the
single blemish when he achieved a diploma in Cobol programming is
entirely self-taught.
Steven D. Nowicki is Director of Software development at
The Content Project, a Santa Monica, California-based consulting
firm currently developing a massive enterprise resource planning
and contact management system comprising more than 300, 000 lines of
OOPHP code. He has a decade of experience in large-scale software
development and system architecture on all major platforms.
David Mercer is a PHP programmer and contributed to
Beginning PHP 4. He has a keen interest in all things open
source ever since he managed to put together a working Beowulf
cluster by nicking old computer parts from colleagues and
assembling them under his desk. He has worked on Wrox open source
titles about PHP, Perl, and Linux.
Dan Squier is a longtime contributor to the Wrox
community and a PHP Programmer.
Wankyu Choi is an accomplished PHP programmer and lead
author of Beginning PHP 4. He holds a Master’s degree
in English/Korean interpretation and translation form the Graduate
School of Translation & Interpretation.
Heow Eide-Goodman is a member of NYPHP and Lisp NYC who
uses PHP in his day job to do Web sites, services, and back-office
transformations among SQL Server, Interbase/Firebird, and
My SQL.
Edward Lecky-Thompson is the founder and director of
Ashridge New Media, a professional new media technology consultancy
based in Berkhamsted, just north of London, England. Self-described
as ’utterly obsessed with PHP, ’ Ed has more than six
years’ experience in commercial software development and
enterprise-level systems architecture across myriad platforms, with
particularly strong exposure to PHP and Apache on Linux-based
platforms.
Clark Morgan is an experienced programmer who creates and
administers databases with Web sites using PHP and My SQL for Fusion
Computing and Media.