Specifications

Dedication
To our Mums and Dads.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the team at Sams for all their hard work. In particular, we would like to
thank Shelley Johnston Markanday without whose dedication and patience this book would not
have been possible. We would also like to thank Israel Denis Jr. and Chris Newman for their
valuable contributions.
We appreciate immensely the work done by the PHP and MySQL development teams. Their
work has made our lives easier for a number of years now, and continues to do so on a daily
basis.
We thank Adrian Close at eSec for saying “You can build that in PHP” back in 1998. We also
thank James Woods and all the staff at Law Partners for giving us such interesting work to test
the boundaries of PHP with.
Finally, we would like to thank our family and friends for putting up with us while we have
been antisocial for the better part of a year. Specifically, thank you for your support to our
family members: Julie, Robert, Martin, Lesley, Adam, Paul, Sandi, James, and Archer.
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