* Begins with a PHP-oriented introduction to enterprise application development principles
* Extensive coverage of application tuning using well-known utilities like Phing, PHPUnit, PHPDocumentor, XDebug2, APD, and KCache Grind
* Author Marcus Whitney has been developing enterprise-class PHP applications for several years, and is a Zend-certified Engineer
* Shows users how to extend the PHP language by writing C-based extensions