Preface
PHP has earned its place as one of the premiere web scripting languages and is used in everything from small utility scripts to object-oriented enterprise applications. This book covers that entire spectrum, offering hacks focusing on everything from HTML and Ajax to code generation and database-driven message queuing.
We have written code and chosen authors from the cutting edge of web development, application development, graphics, and multimedia. Dynamic HTML is covered extensively, offering your users an interactive experience on the web page without having to watch a browser refresh; you'll learn how to generate Flash movies on the fly; you'll even see how to use PHP for database access, web services, and much more.
The book offers more than just canned solutions. It offers ideas and techniques that you can use in your own applications. And why stop there? We encourage you to take the ideas we've presented here and extend them, hacking our hacks, taking your scripts and classes even further.
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