PHP is a server-side programming language mainly used for web development and is also used as a general purpose programming language. It has become a rage in the Internet world. PHP: The Complete Reference, as the name suggests is a complete reference guide to the widely popular PHP.

This book deals with explaining how to personalize the PHP work space, define operators and variables, manipulate strings and arrays and the way in which one can use HTML. It also covers details on how to access database information, track client-side preferences using cookies, execute FTP and e-mail transactions and publish your applications to the Web. Additionally, this book deals in PHP's next generation Web 2.0 design features including AJAX, XML and RSS.

One can also learn to use PHP's object-oriented tools to build blogs, guest books and feedback pages with server-side file storage. PHP: The Complete Reference is a step by step guide to mastering PHP. Starting from the basic to the most advanced level, this book covers each aspect in great detail