With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP's success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code to solve common PHP problems. It focuses on providing real code solutions to problems, allowing the reader to learn by seeing exactly what is happening behind the scenes to get your solution. Because a real-life situation will rarely match the book's example problems precisely, PHP 5 in Practice explains the solution well enough that you will understand it and can learn how to truly solve your own problem.
Elliott White III (known usually as just Eli White), is a classically trained Computer Scientist who fell into the world of Web Application Development, and fell in love with PHP. He has spent over a decade in the field, and has worked for companies such as Digg, TravelPod/Tripadvisor, Hiidef/Goodsie, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope Program.
He is also very active on the PHP conference circuit where he can be found presenting on various tops, such as scalability and security in web applications.
When not writing code, he has extremely varied interests, including Video Games, Golf, Home Brewing, Woodworking, as well as being a Medieval Re-Creationist in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
