Advanced PHP for Flash
Advanced PHP for Flash is the follow-up to the hugely popular Foundation PHP for Flash. The main aim of this book is to extend the reader's knowledge of using PHP and MySQL to produce dynamic content for Flash. Essentially, it picks up the baton from the first book and runs with it until there's no more road. The book takes the reader from being an intermediate to an advanced PHP/Flash developer, and to help them create some awesome Flash-based web applications along the way. It covers the core PHP features, as well as some exciting extras, that follow on directly from the knowledge gained in the first chapter, and show the reader how to use them in real-world applications. This book covers: Sessions; File Uploading; Advanced MySQL; Socket Functions; PHP and XML; Ming; Plus fully functional case studies. This book is aimed squarely at those readers who want to create dynamic Flash-based web applications.
- Cost: $39.99
- Pages: 600
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1904344038
Advanced PHP for Web Professionals
Illustrating the creation of complex PHP driven Web sites through clear explanations and examples, this book utilizes the complete working applications readers can reuse in their programs. The book shows how to use PHP's powerful modules to create database-independent, GUI-driven Web applications. Build complex, PHP-driven Web sites; Discover powerful new PHP techniques; Learn all-new techniques based on PHP-GTK and PEAR::DB; Master XML parsing, user authentication, forms processing, data mining, and much more. In this concise, hands-on tutorial, PHP expert Christopher Cosentino delivers dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Through professional-quality examples drawn from his six years as a PHP developer, Cosentino walks you through building friendlier, more usable sites; improving user authentication; generating dynamic graphics; parsing XML documents; building database independent Web applications.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 368
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0130085391
Beginning PHP4
PHP is a server-side scripting language. It is an open source, cross platform technology (NT, Linux, UNIX), rapidly gaining popularity as a scripting language for people running dynamic websites. Using practical examples and a step by step approach, this book explains how to develop web applications using PHP. Topics include: Introduction to PHP 4; Downloading and installing PHP; Basics of HTTP and Web pages; PHP as a scripting language; PHP data types; Constants and conversions; HTML primer; Form variables; Decision making in PHP; Loops and arrays; PHP functions; Error handling in PHP; Tips on writing more maintainable code; Debugging hints; Preserving state with hidden form variables; Query strings; Cookies and PHP4 native sessions; Using PHP objects; File and directory functions; PHP database programming; Installing and using MySQL; Tutorial for SQL syntax; Querying and updating records; XML "quickstart" for PHP users; ODBC tutorial.
- Cost: $39.99
- Pages: 800
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1861003730
Beginning PHP4 Databases
A large majority of PHP projects rely on a database back-end. As more and more aplications integrate large databases with web interfaces, we seek to provide the novice database programmer with a solid foundation in the art and science of developing advanced data-driven web applications with PHP. This book is a tutorial, a resource, and a reference for PHP programmers who now want to use databases in their applications. No knowledge of database management systems is assumed. After reading the book, developers will be fluent in database systems and how to take advantage of them in PHP applications. They will have gained extensive exposure (more than most current professional PHP coders) tp post-relational and Native XML databases. and be able to decide when to use which type of database system. PHP refresher with emphasis on Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals of database Systems Fundamentals of Relational Database Systems.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1861007825
Building Online Stores With Oscommerce
osCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce solutions and provides businesses with the ability to set up an online store that will compete against any other site at very low cost. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive environment for learning osCommerce up to an advanced level. Written in a clear an concise style, this book will shed light on the complex issues that surround building and understanding your online business. This book will provide you with the necessary steps to create a thoughtfully designed and elegant online store. You will learn how to plan, install develop and test your osCommerce site; Discover how technologies work together in order to effectively develop and execute security, payment, tax and shipping, marketing and advertising policies, as well as relate the needs of your business to the modifications you make; Learn how to manage your site's data; Become an ace at customization and configuration.
- Cost: $44.99
- Platforms: Windows, Unix, Linux
- Pages: 388
- Edition: Professional Edition
- ISBN: 1904811140
Core PHP Programming
A book/CD-ROM guide to PHP 4 for Web developers, covering essentials for building Web applications and deploying them on leading Web servers, including Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Server. Covers PHP syntax, PHP scripts, and I/O, data, and math functions, and time, date, configuration, database, graphics, and network functions. Presents PHP at work in sample code that demonstrates sorting, searching, parsing, and string evaluation. Also gives insights into PHP 4 program design and debugging. The CD-ROM contains source code and code examples. Topics include: History and introduction to PHP; Installing PHP on Apache/Unix and IIS/NT; PHP script basics; PHP language tutorial (including data types, variables, and operators); Flow control statements; PHP functions (arguments, recursion, and dynamic function calls); I/O functions (including files and compressed files, session handling, network I/O, and FTP); Image functions.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 769
- Edition: 2nd Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0130893986
Creating Databse Web Applications
Beginning with a review of basic Web technologies (HTML and JavaScript), the book progresses through the more complex issues of database design. Concepts covered include client-side versus server-side programming, database design and planning, SQL fundamentals, and regular expressions. PHP and ASP are then covered in detail, using readily available MySQL and Access databases. In addition, important technologies are covered, including SQL regular and left joins, form handling, passing information using query strings, cookies and session variables, and validating user input using regular expressions. With the knowledge and experience gained here, beginners will learn the fundamental concepts behind these two technologies, while more experienced developers will learn which technology works best for their specific needs. Creating Database Web Applications Using PHP and ASP teaches the fundamentals of creating complex Web applications.
- Cost: $31.47
- Pages: 350
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1584502649
Creating Your Web Site with PHP
Intended to get programmers up and running quickly, this tutorial looks at Web programming technology using the most recent version of the PHP language to write Web scripts, create Web pages, and design entire sites. Basic information accompanies simple examples in PHP and C with extensive commentary on each. Key features of creating a site with PHP are addressed, including CGIs, PHP syntax, choosing development tools, configuring the Apache Web server, and working with MySQL databases and the SQL language. Other features covered are working with simple functions, object-oriented programming in PHP using interface ideology, and manipulations with strings and arrays. Dmitriy Koterov is head programmer and hosting provider at the RealDesign Internet studio and teaches courses in PHP4. Creating Your Web Site with PHP is an excellent resource for the beginning PHP programmer to start using PHP with websites today.
- Cost: $24.47
- Pages: 500
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1931769044
Dreamweaver MX
This is the long-awaited follow-up from glasshaus' "Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development", which Matt Brown (Deamweaver Community Manager, Macromedia) described as "the VERY best book I have ever seen dealing with databases and web programming". But you don't need to have read that book; any experience of developing PHP sites with Dreamweaver MX or Ultradev is a great starting point. This book takes your PHP sites beyond the functions provided by server behaviors. It teaches you PHP, from the syntax to full applications, from the point of view of a Dreamweaver user, covering PHP-generated email, XML, Sessions and Cookies, Flash and two case-studies, a Training Log and a Content Management System. The chapters take you from basic syntax through to developing full applications, teaching the basic functionality, then showing you how to use it in real-world examples. This book is for any Dreamweaver user who wants to delve into the art of hand coding.
- Cost: $39.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1904151191
Essential PHP fast
How to create dynamic web environments using the PHP language and the MySQL database! If you are familiar with the syntax for C, C++ and Java, then PHP will seem very familiar. Once you have got up to speed with this HTML embedded scripting language, you will soon be creating dynamic HTML database-enabled web pages quickly and easily. This quick and practical introduction explains: - how PHP works and what a dynamic web page is; - the software development environment; - the syntax and features of the language; - how PHP can be integrated with MySQL databases; - dynamic database applications. Clearly written, this book provides you with all the essential information you need to create your own dynamic web environments using PHP. A quick and practical introduction to PHP. Provides you with all the essential information you need to create your own dynamic web environments using PHP.
- Cost: $29.95
- Pages: 256
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1852335785
