Multi-Tier Application Programming with PHP

Preface

This book aspires to replace trust in commercial products with reliance on open-source software and your own ingenuity.

We’ve all been in a situation in which a customer wants to solve some complicated information-services problem without spending much money. Maybe the project is a one-off demonstration that’s unlikely to lead to much of a sale. Maybe it’s a proof-of-concept project that may never get real funding. Maybe, and this isn’t uncommon at all, the customer is just cheap and wants a real, highly capable, production solution for the absolute least amount of money possible. The application typically is feature rich, with a substantial data model backing it up. It may be something like a travel reservation system, a catalog, a ...