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Jason has more than 10 0 articles to his credit within prominent publications such as Developer.com, Linux Magazine, and TechTarget He’s the author of several books, including the best-selling Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional, and Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional Away from the laptop you’ll find Jason... 211 ■CHAPTER 8 Error and Exception Handling 213 Configuration Directives 214 Error Logging 217 Exception Handling 2 21 Why Exception Handling Is Handy 2 21 PHP s Exception-Handling Implementation ... 10 1 File-Inclusion Statements 10 8 Summary 11 2 ■CHAPTER 4 Functions 11 3 Invoking a Function 11 3 Creating a Function 11 5 Passing Arguments by Value 11 5 Passing... gaining practical and comprehensive insight into the PHP programming language and MySQL database server, and how these prominent technologies can be used together to create dynamic, database-driven Web applications, this book is for you The feverish work of the respective PHP and MySQL communities prompted this new edition, and with it considerable changes over the previous edition In addition to updating... carefully revised, and in some cases heavily modified, to both update and improve upon the previous edition’s material If you’re new to PHP, I recommend beginning with Chapter 1, because gaining the fundamental knowledge presented therein will be of considerable benefit to you when you’re reading later chapters If you know PHP but are new to MySQL, consider beginning with Chapter 25 Intermediate and advanced... way to best understand the concepts presented within For your convenience, a zip file containing all of the examples can be downloaded from http://www.apress.com Contact Me! I love reader e-mail, and invite you to contact me with comments, suggestions, and questions Feel free to e-mail me at jason@wjgilmore.com Also be sure to regularly check http://www.beginningphpandmysql.com for errata, code, and. .. entries located in the bottom of the Global Environment section: LoadModule php6 _module c: /php6 /php6 apache2.dll AddType application/x-httpd -php php PHPIniDir "c: \php6 " Because at the time of publication PHP 6 wasn’t yet official, you should use the latest stable version of PHP 5 if you’re planning on running any production applications To do so, you’ll need to make some minor changes to the previous lines,... developer, and system administrator He currently works for a large financial firm by day and freelances by night He has experience programming in several languages, though he most commonly utilizes PHP and C On the database side of things, he regularly uses MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server As an accomplished system administrator, he regularly has to maintain Windows servers and Linux boxes and prefers to deal... 11 7 Default Argument Values 11 8 Returning Values from a Function 11 9 Recursive Functions 12 1 Function Libraries 12 4 Summary 12 5 ■CHAPTER 5 Arrays 12 7 What... 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