PHP 4 Bible

Tim Converse is a programmer with 10 years of experience in Lisp, C, C++, Java and web techniques including PHP. He has an MS in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Chicago, where he taught several programming classes. He's designed and implemented systems that pick stocks, answer questions about space colonies, recommend novels, and help people pick out ties. Joyce Park fell into Web development as a form of dissertation avoidance while studying/teaching history at the University of Chicago, from which she earned an MA. She has worked on several systems that combine deep content with AI techniques, such as the award-winning MysteryGuide.com; most of those were developed in PHP3. Joyce contributes documentation to various OSS projects, and her essays have garnered praise from the editors and readers of Slashdot, OSOpinion, SolarisCentral, Linux.com, and many others worldwide. Having herself clawed her way up from the very bottom of the technological ladder, she's in a good position to understand what newbies really want to know but are afraid to ask.