[Phpwm] Hi

[j michaelson]

I got a copy of PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling & Laura
Thomson from Amazon. (Thanks for the recommendation Rob). It's a
massive tome and covers a lot of stuff, so this should keep me busy
for a while.

Any previous coding/scripting that I've done (bash, python and C) has
been for hobbyist stuff, but I'm curious about the possibility of
doing PHP for a living at some point in the future. Would I have to
master the entire contents of this book before I was ready for an
entry level PHP job? If not, which of the chapters would give me a
good start?

Thanks.

(content listing below)

I Using PHP
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1 PHP Crash Course
2 Storing and Retrieving Data
3 Using Arrays
4 String Manipulation and Regular Expressions
5 Reusing Code and Writing Functions
6 Object-Oriented PHP
7 Error and Exception Handling

II Using MySQL
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8 Designing Your Web Database
9 Creating Your Web Database
10 Working with Your MySQL Database
11 Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP
12 Advanced MySQL Administration
13 Advanced MySQL Programming

III E-commerce and Security
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14 Running an E-commerce Site
15 E-commerce Security Issues
16 Web Application Security
17 Implementing Authentication with PHP and MySQL
18 Implementing Secure Transactions with PHP and MySQL

IV Advanced PHP Techniques
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19 Interacting with the File System and the Server
20 Using Network and Protocol Functions
21 Managing the Date and Time
22 Generating Images
23 Using Session Control in PHP
24 Other Useful Features

V Building Practical PHP and MySQL Projects
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25 Using PHP and MySQL for Large Projects
26 Debugging
27 Building User Authentication and Personalization
28 Building a Shopping Cart
29 Building a Web-Based Email Service
30 Building a Mailing List Manager
31 Building Web Forums
32 Generating Personalized PDF Documents
33 Connecting to Web Services with XML and SOAP
34 Building Web 2.0 Applications with Ajax