This second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming: A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5 by George Schlossnagle is reprinted with permission of Sams ...

Greenland native Rasmus Lerdorf was tired of writing the same code over and over while creating his personal home page back in 1995. So, he says, he wrote “a very simple parser” to replace tags in an ...

I currently only have a Windows-based laptop, but would like to start coding in PHP/MySQL again. Do you think it would be better, in terms of scalability and transferability, to install all Win32 ...

In some sense, it’s comparable to new users of spreadsheets who think they can generate an accounting package. There are good ...