David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8. As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish. What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC television and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy. When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.

Getting Ready to Work with PHP.- Flash Breaks Free.- Calculations and Decisions.- Of Strings and Things.- Working Smarter with Arrays and Loops.- PHP and Databases: Packing Real Power Behind Your Applications.- Playing with Words.- Creating a User Registration Database.- Protecting Your Data with Sessions.- Keeping Control with a Content Management System.- Working with Dates.- Working with Multiple Tables and XML.

*Covers over a dozen complex applications with real-world focus

*Focuses on teaching the technology, and graphical aspects of Flash examples presented with creative edge

*Only book covering integration of Flash and PHP, plus MySQL