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In this book, Beginning PHP And MySQL: From Novice To Professional, the readers are given in-depth info about utilizing PHP, and MySQL to build robust web applications. Summary Of The Book As the name suggests, Beginning PHP And MySQL: From Novice To Professional is a book that provides its readers with detailed information on the subject of PHP, and MySQL. Not only does this book provide thorough explanations of concepts, it also guides the readers how to implement these concepts to build powerful web apps. Through the course of this book, the author covers several aspects of PHP 5.3, and shows ways to utilize them. In total, there are over 30 chapters present in this book, from a brief intro to the language, to high-end concepts such as indexing, and searching. Some of the chapters in this book include Authenticating Your Users, MySQL Storage Engines And Datatypes, Practical Database Queries, Importing And Exporting Data, Building Web Sites For The World, Integrating jQuery And PHP, Working With The File And Operating System, Configuring Your Environment, Importing And Exporting Data, Templating With Smarty, and Strings And Regular Expressions. The readers are also given insight into installing, and configuring PHP 5.3, MySQL, and Apache. Individuals who read this book will be able to understand the use of MySQL for storing website’s data, and managing databases by using MySQL Workbench. This book is loaded with numerous examples, which make difficult concepts easy to understand. All in all, this book is a must-read for those who desire to gain sound understanding of PHP, and MySQL. About W. Jason Gilmore The author of this book, W. Jason Gilmore, is also a renowned web developer, and business consultant. Apart from this book, Gilmore has published five other books. Some of the books written by Gilmore include Beginning PHP And PostgreSQL 8: From Novice To Professional, Beginning PHP And Oracle: From Novice To Professional, and Beginning PHP And MySQL 5: From Novice To Professional. Gilmore has been involved in the field of web development, and business consulting for the past 15 years. In recent times, Gilmore has led the execution of a 10000+ product e-commerce project, and is also presently working on a number of other e-commerce initiatives. For more than 10 years, he has been educating individuals on the subject of web development. He has also co-founded the CodeMash Conference, which is the largest developer conference held in the Midwest. Gilmore’s articles have been published over 300 times in well-known publications such as Linux Magazine, PHPBuilder.com, JSMag, and Developer.com. He has also been a part of the 2008 MySQL Conference Speaker selection board.