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About the Author
Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire
(http://www.melonfire.com/), a consulting services
firm with special expertise in open-source tools and
technologies. He is a passionate proponent of the open-source
movement and frequently contributes articles and tutorials
on open-source technologies—including Perl, Python,
PHP, MySQL, and Linux—to the community at large. His
previous books include MySQL: The Complete Reference
(McGraw-Hill, 2003; http://www.mysql-tcr.com/) and
How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL (McGraw-Hill,
2005; http://www.everythingphpmysql.com/).
Vikram has more than eight years of experience working with PHP and MySQL
as an application developer. He is the author of Zend Technologies’ PHP 101 series
for PHP beginners, and has extensive experience deploying PHP in a variety of
different environments (including corporate intranets, high-traffic Internet Web sites,
and mission-critical thin client applications).
A Felix Scholar at the University of Oxford, England, Vikram combines his
interest in Web application development with various other activities. When not
dreaming up plans for world domination, he amuses himself by reading crime
fiction, watching old movies, playing squash, blogging, and keeping an eye out
for unfriendly Agents. Read more about him and PHP Programming Solutions at
http://www.php-programming-solutions.com.
About the Technical Reviewer
Chris has been involved in the PHP community for about eight or nine years now.
Soon after discovering the language, he started up his new Web site, PHPDeveloper
.org, to share the latest happenings and opinions from other PHPers all around
the Web. Chris has written for PHP publications such as php|architect and the
International PHP Magazine on topics ranging from geocoding to trackbacks.
He also was a coauthor of PHP String Handling (Wrox Press, 2003).
Chris lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and works for a large natural gas
distributor maintaining their Web site and developing Web applications in PHP.