Press Release
February 2, 2000
O'Reilly Publishes Concise Guide to PHP
Sebastopol, CA--An open source, cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's
Active Server Page (ASP) technology, PHP is a freely available script
language and interpreter now running on over 700,000 web sites. PHP is
proving to be a powerful tool for building dynamic, database-driven websites.
As with ASP, PHP (the initials refer to the first version of the program
"Personal Home Page Tools") script is embedded within a Web page along with
its HTML. Before the page is sent to a user that has requested it, the Web
server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the
PHP script. This allows scripts to be built in to HTML code that can access
back-end databases, enabling on-the-fly creation of pages.
O'Reilly & Associates has just published a handy reference to PHP --
The PHP Pocket Reference. Written by Rasmus Lerdorf (who started the PHP Project
back in 1995 and has been actively involved in PHP development ever since)
this small book acts both as a perfect tutorial for learning the basics of
developing Web applications with PHP and as a reference to the vast array
of functions provided by PHP. "The PHP language itself borrows concepts
from other common languages, such as C and Perl. If you have some
experience with one of these languages, you should feel right at home with
PHP," says author Rasmus Lerdorf.
PHP Pocket Reference
By Rasmus Lerdorf
1st Edition January 2000
1-56592-769-9, 120 pages, $9.95
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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