* Offering a native Windows release, PostgreSQL 8.0 is poised to garner considerable market share in the open source arena. This book shows readers how to harness this popular open source database with PHP, the world's most popular web scripting language.

* Essentially three books in one, PostgreSQL 8.0 exposes readers to detailed introductions of PHP and PostgreSQL. Readers gain extensive knowledge about these two popular open source technologies to create powerful websites.

* Authored by W. Jason Gilmore, author of the best selling Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, and noted PostgreSQL developer and community liaison Robert Treat.

An Introduction to PHP.- Installing and Configuring Apache and PHP.- PHP Basics.- Functions.- Arrays.- Object-Oriented PHP.- Advanced OOP Features.- Error and Exception Handling.- Strings and Regular Expressions.- Working with the File and Operating System.- PEAR.- Date and Time.- Forms and Navigational Cues.- Authentication.- Handling File Uploads.- Networking.- PHP and LDAP.- Session Handlers.- Templating with Smarty.- Web Services.- Secure PHP Programming.- SQLite.- Introducing PDO.- Introducing PostgreSQL.- Installing PostgreSQL.- PostgreSQL Administration.- The Many PostgreSQL Clients.- From Databases to Datatypes.- Securing PostgreSQL.- PHP's PostgreSQL Functionality.- Practical Database Queries.- Views and Rules.- PostgreSQL Functions.- PostgreSQL Triggers.- Indexes and Searching.- Transactions.- Importing and Exporting Data.

W. Jason Gilmore is a web developer and business consultant with more than 15 years of experience helping companies large and small build amazing software solutions. He has been teaching developers from around the world about web development for over a decade, having written six books, including the bestselling Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition and Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, Second Edition .Over the years Jason has been published more than 300 times within popular publications such as Developer.com, PHPBuilder.com, JSMag, and Linux Magazine, and instructed hundreds of students in the United States and Europe. He s recently led the successful development and deployment of a 10,000+ product e-commerce project, and is currently working on a variety of new e-commerce initiatives. Jason is cofounder of the wildly popular CodeMash Conference, the largest multi-day developer event in the Midwest.