The Future of PHP

PHP is currently at version 4 and shows no sign of slowing down. The community of PHP users is growing rapidly, and those community members are eagerly pushing the language to include new capabilities. Some of the things that PHP can do for you that were not covered in this chapter include these:

  • Implement basic HTTP authentication to protect resources on your server

  • Read from and write to files on your server

  • Handle files uploaded through an XHTML form

  • Monitor user behavior through session tracking

The PHP Manual, found at http://www.php.net/manual/html/, can give you the details on how to implement some of these more advanced functions. As you continue working with PHP, you will no doubt want to bookmark this site as both a reference ...

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