Beginning PHP5

Dave W. Mercer has 15 years' experience in industrialand process engineering, and systems analysis, and is CTO for aB2B, responsible for the development and deployment of onlineautomated business services. His entire site hosting server, andthe applications he builds for hosted clients are programmed in PHPusing Postgres or MySQL as the database.Allan Kent is a PHP programmer who runs his own companyand is a co-author of Beginning PHP 4. Alan has beenprogramming seriously for the past dozen years and, other than thesingle blemish when he achieved a diploma in Cobol programming isentirely self-taught.Steven D. Nowicki is Director of Software development atThe Content Project, a Santa Monica, California-based consultingfirm currently developing a massive enterprise resource planningand contact management system comprising more than 300,000 lines ofOOPHP code. He has a decade of experience in large-scale softwaredevelopment and system architecture on all major platforms.David Mercer is a PHP programmer and contributed toBeginning PHP 4. He has a keen interest in all things opensource ever since he managed to put together a working Beowulfcluster by nicking old computer parts from colleagues andassembling them under his desk. He has worked on Wrox open sourcetitles about PHP, Perl, and Linux.Dan Squier is a longtime contributor to the Wroxcommunity and a PHP Programmer.Wankyu Choi is an accomplished PHP programmer and leadauthor of Beginning PHP 4. He holds a Master's degreein English/Korean interpretation and translation form the GraduateSchool of Translation & Interpretation.Heow Eide-Goodman is a member of NYPHP and LispNYC whouses PHP in his day job to doWeb sites, services, and back-officetransformations among SQL Server, Interbase/Firebird, andMySQL.Edward Lecky-Thompson is the founder and director ofAshridge New Media, a professional new media technology consultancybased in Berkhamsted, just north of London, England. Self-describedas "utterly obsessed with PHP," Ed has more than sixyears' experience in commercial software development andenterprise-level systems architecture across myriad platforms, withparticularly strong exposure to PHP and Apache on Linux-basedplatforms.Clark Morgan is an experienced programmer who creates andadministers databases with Web sites using PHP and MySQL for FusionComputing and Media.