User Authentication and Personalization

Is among one of the things I'll be able to learn in this book. Other items are:

• Shopping carts


• Content management systems


• Web-based email


• Mailing list managers


• Web forums


• PDF document generation


• Web services with XML and SOAP

I'll be letting you know when I feel like I've learned them.

3:00 am and I've finished the introduction. It explains why one should learn php and mysql how these products are positioned in the market as free / open source items. Now onto the PHP Crash Course