CHAPTER 12Understanding Web Basics

In the world of online applications, a wide variety of functionality needs to be on hand for the programmer. Thankfully, PHP 5 has done its best to ensure that anything that makes a system work is readily available to a crafty programmer. Algorithms that track a unique individual on a website or functions that work with headers and querystrings are common pieces of functionality that make up the backbone of most well-written online software applications.

This chapter shows how to set up and maintain a wide variety of functionality that will come in handy with your everyday applications. Considered kind of a "bells and whistles" chapter, this chapter covers some of the functionality that will no doubt serve ...

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