Core PHP Programming, w. CD-ROM, Engl. ed. (Prentice Hall Ptr Core Series)

@HEADLINE= The bestselling guide to PHP is now updated with coverage of PHP 5!

• Authoritative - the "keepers" of PHP, who are also the developers of the Zend Engine which powers PHP, are now co-author and tech editor on the book @BULLET= Timely - will publish before PHP 5 is actually released.
• Covers the new object-oriented capabilities of PHP 5, as well as Design Patterns in PHP.

Core PHP Programming is now updated for PHP 5! PHP 5 is expected to be released by year's end, and with it will come a new level of Internet pragmatics and functionality. PHP 5 totally rebuilds PHP's support for object-oriented programming. PHP now includes exceptions, member access control (public, private, protected), and interfaces. The new object model allows for genuine object-oriented programming, and the book now covers design patterns. All existing PHP developers - as well as many developers who haven't tried PHP yet - will want to find out about these new features. Atkinson, the author of the two previous editions, is now joined by Zeev Suraski, one of the co-creators of the Zend Engine (the scripting engine which powers PHP 5), and one of the co-keepers of PHP. The other co-creator of the Zend Engine and co-keeper of PHP, Andi Gutmans, is tech-editing the book and will write a foreword for it. This should be one of the first books, if not the first, available on this major new version of PHP.

Leon Atkinson is Chief Technologist for Clear Ink Corporation, an agency offering traditional and Web communication services. He is creator and maintainer of the Free Trade project, an open source e-commerce toolkit, and an enthusiastic supporter of PHP. He is the author of the first two editions of Core PHP, which have sold almost 50,000 copies worldwide. Zeev Suraski is the co-founder and CTO of Zend, the leading PHP company. Zeev was the co-developer with Andi Gutmans of the Zend Engine, the scripting engine that has powered PHP since version 3.0. They are now the "keepers" of PHP. Zeev delivered the closing keynote at PHP-CON 2003, in which he previewed PHP 5.
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