Laura Thomson是Mozilla公司的高级软件工程师。之前，她是OmniTI公司和Tangled Web Design公司的合伙人。此外，Laura曾经在RMIT大学和波士顿顾问集团工作过。她获得了应用科学（计算机科学）的学士学位和工程学（计算机系统工程）学士学位。在她的空闲时间，她非常喜欢骑马，讨论免费软件和开源软件以及睡觉。.

Luke Welling是OmniTI公司的一位Web架构师，他经常在一些国际会议（例如，OSCON， ZendCon， MySQLUC，HPCon，OSDC以及LinuxTag）中就开源和Web开发的话题发表演讲。在加入OmniTI公司..

Master today's best practices for succeeding with PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5 web database development! Long acknowledged as the clearest, most practical, and most down-to-earth guide to PHP/MySQL web development, the brand-new Fifth Edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development fully reflects the latest versions of PHP and MySQL. Maintaining the approach that has made this book so successful through, Luke Welling and Laura Thomson add extensive new coverage of security, cloud and mobile development, and using the PEAR repository's massive resources. Part I offers a crash course in using PHP, including data storage/retrieval, arrays, strings, regular expressions, code reuse, objects, and error/exception handling. Next, walk through designing, creating, accessing, and programming MySQL databases. Part III turns to e-commerce, adding extensive new coverage of web security, plus up-to-the-minute discussions of authentication and secure transactions. A full section of advanced PHP techniques addresses everything from networking and filesystem interaction to image generation and session control. The authors conclude with primers on real-world development and debugging, followed by ten start-to-finish case studies, from authentication to content management, personalized PDFs to web services and Web 2.0 apps.