When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is a red-hot property: used on more 19 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. This new Hacks book contains useful tips, tricks, and techniques for working with PHP that will appeal to a broad range of developers, from newcomers to experts. Author Jack Herrington is a software engineer and author with 20 years of experience developing applications using a diverse set of languages and tools. His prolific output ranges from scientific real-time applications to web applications for business. He is an expert in the use of code generation techniques from very simple code maintenance to code generators, and author of `Code Generation in Action' (Manning) and `Podcasting Hacks' for O'Reilly.