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Annotation The authoritative guide to developing web applications with PHP on the Microsoft Windows platform. This book covers PHP from installation all the way up to developing PHP applications with the Active Directory and .NET. Uniquely teaches developers how to optimize PHP for the Windows platform and how to work with PHP and Windows Enterprise technologies. This book gets readers up and running in no time with its examples. Readers can directly apply the examples to their own web sites. PHP Programming for Windows is the first book of its kind to offer a Windows centric stance on PHP with the intermediate to advanced audience in mind. This book covers PHP from the ground up and benefits both those new to PHP to PHP experts. The book covers new ground like using PHP with Windows databases such as Access and SQL Server plus other topics such as the Microsoft SOAP SDK and using PHP with the Active Directory. Andrew Stopford has been developing and writing about web application development since 1996 and has been working with PHP on the Windows platform for the last 3 years. Andrew has been published in web development magazines and journals worldwide and across the web for sites such as ASP Today and Zend.com. He is currently a senior developer with RDi, building web applications for a wide range of blue-chip clients.