Welcome to the companion CD for
"Core Web Application Programming with PHP and MySQL"
by Marc Wandschneider (ISBN 0-13-186716-4).
Copyright (c) 2005 Prentice-Hall Inc.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
====================
The following are the requirements for running the samples and web
applications included on this CD:

Operating Systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP
- Linux 2.4 kernel or greater
- FreeBSD 4.x or greater or OpenBSD 3.7 or greater
- Mac OS X 10.2 or greater

Disk Space:
- about 500MB, more if you download and install the documentation associated
  with the various packages.

Memory:
- the software will all run on systems with 128MB of memory.



CONTENTS:
=========
This CD is intended for standalone (non-networked) use and contains the
following:

software/ Folder:
  This folder contains all of the necessary software to install and run the
example code snippets and web applications included with this CD.  Recent
versions of PHP5, MySQL 4.1, and Apache 1.3 are included.  Instructions for
compiling and running these packages are included in Appendix I of the book.


booksrc/ Folder:
  This folder contains the source for the code snippets presented in the
chapters and the three full web applications shown in Chapters 31 - 33.  The
chapters/ subdirectory contains the code associated with the various
chapters, while the appointments/, simpleblog/, and ecommerce/ chapters
contain the code for the sample web applications.



INSTALLATION AND USE:
=====================
  Instructions for installation and configuration of the packages in the
software/ directory are included in Appendix I of the book (and also in the
INSTALL file included with some of them).

  For the code snippets associated with the various chapters, copying them
to your hard disk and into the DocumentRoot of your web server will be
sufficient to run and test them.

  For the complete web application samples, full instructions for their
installation and configuration are included in a INSTALL.TXT file in each of
the directories.



TECHNICAL SUPPORT:
==================
The contents of this CD are provided AS-IS and do not include technical
support. For updates and more articles on PHP and MySQL, please visit
the author's website, www.chipmunkninja.com.

The various software packages included on this CD are all either open source
only distributions or "Community Releases" that come with no direct or free
support.  Support for this software can be arranged and purchased from the
appropriate vendor or third-party consultants.


