Laura Thomson是Mozilla公司的高級軟件工程師。之前，她是OmniTI公司和Tangled Web Design公司的閤夥人。此外，Laura曾經在RMIT大學和波士頓顧問集團工作過。她獲得瞭應用科學（計算機科學）的學士學位和工程學（計算機係統工程）學士學位。在她的空閑時間，她非常喜歡騎馬，討論免費軟件和開源軟件以及睡覺。.

Luke Welling是OmniTI公司的一位Web架構師，他經常在一些國際會議（例如，OSCON， ZendCon， MySQLUC，HPCon，OSDC以及LinuxTag）中就開源和Web開發的話題發錶演講。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.