This is an adaptation of Jason Gilmore's best-selling book, Beginning PHP and MySQL. It's a recognition of the growing use of PHP with commercial databases, Oracle in particular, enabling readers in Oracle-based shops to learn PHP on their chosen platform.

This is an adaptation of Jason Gilmore's best-selling book, Beginning PHP and MySQL. It's a recognition of the growing use of PHP with commercial databases, Oracle in particular, enabling readers in Oracle-based shops to learn PHP on their chosen platform. Supplying the Oracle expertise is Bob Bryla, co-author of the Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook and many other titles. His easy-going and straightforward style is an excellent match for Jason's, making their book one of the best things going for those wanting to learn about using PHP with Oracle. Oracle continues to make significant investments towards raising the profile of using its namesake database in conjunction with PHP, the world's most popular web scripting language. The release of the freely available Oracle XE makes way for an entire new market of users seeking to take advantage of this powerful database.

Extends the successful pattern from Beginning PHP and MySQL and Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL to the Oracle Database platform Oracle continues to make significant investments towards raising the profile of using its namesake database in conjunction with PHP, the world's most popular web scripting language The release of the freely available Oracle XE makes way for an entire new market of users seeking to take advantage of this powerful database

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W. Jason Gilmore is a web developer and business consultant with more than 15 years of experience helping companies large and small build amazing software solutions. He has been teaching developers from around the world about web development for over a decade, having written six books, including the bestselling Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition and Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, Second Edition .Over the years Jason has been published more than 300 times within popular publications such as Developer.com, PHPBuilder.com, JSMag, and Linux Magazine, and instructed hundreds of students in the United States and Europe. He s recently led the successful development and deployment of a 10,000+ product e-commerce project, and is currently working on a variety of new e-commerce initiatives. Jason is cofounder of the wildly popular CodeMash Conference, the largest multi-day developer event in the Midwest.

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Introducing PHP.- Configuring Your Environment.- PHP Basics.- Functions.- Arrays.- Object-Oriented PHP.- Advanced OOP Features.- Error and Exception Handling.- Strings and Regular Expressions.- Working with the File and Operating System.- Pear.- Date and Time.- Forms.- Authentication.- Handling File Uploads.- Networking.- PHP and LDAP.- Session Handlers.- Templating with Smarty.- Web Services.- Secure PHP Programming.- SQLite.- Introducing PDO.- Building Web Sites for the World.- MVC and the Zend Framework.- Introducing Oracle.- Installing and Configuring Oracle Database XE.- Oracle Database XE Administration.- Interacting with Oracle Database XE.- From Databases to Datatypes.- Securing Oracle Database XE.- PHP's Oracle Functionality.- Transactions.- Using HTML_Table with Advanced Queries.- Using Views.- Oracle PL/SQL Subprograms.- Oracle Triggers.- Indexes and Optimizing Techniques.- Importing and Exporting Data.- Backup and Recovery.