When it comes to create dynamic web sites, open source PHP language red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples - or "recipes" - for anyone who uses a scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use new language features in detail, including the ability to object-oriented extension is much better and the new PDO data access. new section in the class and object that is included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP / REST architectures.