PHP is an open source server side scripting language for creating dynamic web pages for ecommerce and other web applications offering a simple and universal solution for easy-to-program dynamic web pages. This text is a solutions-oriented guide to the challenges most often faced by PHP developers.
PHP Developer's Cookbook is a task-oriented book intended to offer solutions to the daily problems and goals the PHP developer faces.
In addition to a brief introduction to PHP, the main content of the book is presented in a problem and solution format, logically organized on a topic-by-topic basis. Each question specifies a goal, and the following text provides a detailed solution that achieves the stated goal along with any additional related information.
After a crash course in the basics, the PHP Developer's Cookbook covers more advanced development topics.