This reference for new and seasoned PHP and MySQL developers offers insight into the PHP programming language and MySQL database server, and how they can be used together to create database-driven web applications. The book begins with an overview of PHP's capabilities, then covers PHP concepts, such as variables, datatypes, string manipulation, and user interaction. Later chapters cover MySQL's key features, storage engines and data types, administration utilities, and security features. Updated to introduce new features found in the PHP 6 release, this third edition contains a new chapter devoted to creating multilingual web sites, and a new chapter on using the Zend Framework. Gilmore is a developer and consultant. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)