With a writing style that is really interesting and sharp visual sense, this title will allow a working Flash programmer make the transition to simple server-side scripting with PHP. While most programming books print source code such as this one distinguishes itself with a sharp visual presentation with graphics that are used to highlight the parts of both Flash ActionScript and basic PHP. Firstly, all interfaces are created in Flash and ActionScript, and this book guides you through the steps necessary to build this design. After a basic tutorial PHP language, I use PHP to add additional functionality to Flash-powered Web applications, from managing user registration to search for news articles using regular expressions. While most writers pass the buck for online resources is difficult for regular expressions, the author took the time to explain and demonstrate how regular expressions really work, with clear examples and patient style of presentation well. Then, zero in the book using MySQL database package to store and retrieve data from Flash applications -. Richard Dragan Topics covered: Overview of PHP 4 and the need for scripting, loading external data in Flash (registration script), PHP language fundamentals (including variables, data types, arrays), using functions (calling conventions), string handling in PHP, in-depth tutorials on PHP regular expressions, using cookies, file I / O tutorials, introduction of the MySQL database platform, basic SQL syntax tutorial, using PHP and MySQL together (a simple content management system), a case study for a user poll (including module administration), event planner scheduler application, case studies for threaded discussion Web application, the reference to install PHP and MySQL, an important object-oriented programming in PHP, and resources for PHP.