PHP Essentials, Second Edition | PHP Essentials, 2nd Edition

Julie Meloni

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ISBN: 1-931841-34-9

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003101207

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Acknowledgments

Thanks as always to the PHP Group, Zend Technologies, the Apache Software Foundation and MySQL AB for creating and maintaining such wonderful and accessible products for all users.

Thanks to every single PHP user and developer, because without you, I wouldn't have anything to write about.

Enormous thanks to everyone at i2i Interactive, for their never-ending support and encouragement.

About the Author

JULIE MELONI is the technical director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, California. She's been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in many different languages, including Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and even Serbian.