Special Thanks to

My heartfelt thanks to everyone at Peachpit Press, as always.

My gratitude to editor extraordinaire Rebecca Gulick, who makes my job so much easier. And thanks to Patricia Pane for her hard work, helpful suggestions, and impressive attention to detail. Thanks also to Valerie Haynes-Perry for indexing and Myrna Vladic and Deb Roberti for laying out the book, and thanks to Anselm Bradford for his technical review.

Kudos to the good people working on PHP, MySQL, Apache, phpMyAdmin, MAMP, and XAMPP, among other great projects. And a hearty “cheers” to the denizens of the various newsgroups, mailing lists, support forums, etc., who offer assistance and advice to those in need.

Thanks, as always, to the readers, whose support gives my job relevance. An extra helping of thanks to those who provided the translations in Chapter 17, “Example—Message Board,” and who offered up recommendations as to what they’d like to see in this edition.

Thanks to Karnesha and Sarah for entertaining and taking care of the kids so that I could get some work done.

Finally, I would not be able to get through a single book if it weren’t for the love and support of my wife, Jessica. And a special shout-out to Zoe and Sam, who give me reasons to, and not to, write books!