PHP for the World Wide Web
Designed for developers, this guide and reference covers the key concepts of PHP and explains the features of PHP version 4.04. Beginning with a basic overview, it moves on to cover syntax, testing scripts, working with variables, and creating Web applications. Along the way, sample scripts and projects illustrate major points. Ullman is a PHP programmer and Web designer. Need to learn PHP fast? Try a Visual QuickStart! Takes an easy, visual approach to teaching PHP scripting, using pictures to guide you through the language and show you what to do. Works like a reference book--you look up what you need and then get straight to work. No long-winded passes--concise, straightforward commentary explains what you need to know. Beginner to intermediate level self-study guide on PHP for the World Wide Web. Takes a visual approach, offering readers step-by-step instructions with illustrations and screen shots to clarify procedures.
- Cost: $13.99
- Pages: 278
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201727870
PHP Functions Essential Reference
PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages, and it is the Open Source alternative to Active Server Pages. PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. You create pages with PHP and HTML. When a visitor opens the page, the server processes the PHP commands and then sends the results to the visitor's browser, just as with ASP or ColdFusion. Unlike ASP or ColdFusion, however, PHP is Open Source and cross-platform. PHP runs on Windows NT and many Unix versions, and it can be built as an Apache module and as a binary that can run as a CGI. When built as an Apache module, PHP is especially lightweight and speedy. This book is a reference of all PHP functions and features, through PHP4, presented in the very accessible manner of an Essential Reference. PHP is swiftly gaining market share and is expected to become the leading add-on module for Apache within the next 3-4 months.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 768
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 073570970X
PHP Graphics Handbook
PHP is an insanely popular, easy-to-learn language that you can use to create dynamic webpages in double-quick time. Whether the PHP webpage you create is for business or pleasure, you obviously want your webpage to be as attractive as possible. In the PHP Graphics Handbook, we show you cunning graphical techniques that will make your website stand out from the crowd. The book teaches you how to apply all of the following techniques on the fly using your PHP code: Creating new image files in various formats and drawing on blank images; Merging, blurring, cropping, copying and cutting-up images; The most effective ways to generate thumbnails and store images; Manipulating color, grayscaling and duotone, adjusting brightness; Adding transparency, soft and hard shadows, and watermarks; How to add text to images: handling fonts and text layout; How to create professional-looking charts and graphs.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 300
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1861008368
PHP Manual
The PHP Manual, Volume 1 is the first in a two-part series on the popular PHP language. PHP is a popular server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. At the most basic level, PHP can do anything any other CGI program can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or send and receive cookies. PHP is distributed free under the GNU license, and is used in tens of thousands of Internet Web sites around the globe. Completing the reference set is PHP Manual, Volume 2 available separately. Both books are printed versions of the online documentation. These books are provided as a convenience, saving you the time and trouble of printing of making paper copies. Topics include: definition of PHP, a brief history of PHP, installation of php, configuring php with apache, php apache module, safe mode configuration directives, php language reference, handling file uploads with php, connection handling, pitfalls with php.
- Cost: $24.00
- Pages: 480
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0595132278
PHP MySQL Website Programming
PHP MySQL Website Programming shows the development process for a web site using a specific set of technologies: the Apache web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. It takes the reader through the construction of a complete application driven site from design to deployment. Each chapter in the book identifies a task to be accomplished that is necessary for the construction of the site. It suggests a way to go about the required programming, and finally implements a solution based on the discussion. The ideas that are presented and the code that is written are indicative of the way real world tasks are being completed. The book's bottom line is to define a good methodology for creating a web site by identifying problems, surmising solutions to those problems, and then implementing those solutions using modern development practices. Chris Lea Chris Lea is, on his better days, a developer.
- Cost: $49.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1861008279
PHP Pocket Reference
Simple, to the point, and compact--in fact, exactly what you've come to expect in an O'Reilly Pocket Reference--the second edition of PHP Pocket Reference is thoroughly updated to include the specifics of PHP 4, the language's latest version. Written by the founder of the PHP Project, Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Pocket Reference is both a handy introduction to PHP syntax and structure, and a quick reference to the vast array of functions provided by PHP. The quick reference section organizes all the core functions of PHP alphabetically so you can find what you need easily; the slim size means you can keep it handy beside your keyboard for those times when you want to look up a function quickly without closing what you're doing. This valuable little book provides an authoritative overview of PHP packed into a pocket-sized guide that's easy to take anywhere. It is also the ideal companion for O'Reilly's comprehensive book on PHP, Programming PHP.
- Cost: $10.47
- Pages: 144
- Edition: 2nd edition
- ISBN: 0596004028
PHP Professional Projects
PHP, which stands for Hypertext Pre-Processor, is a popular scripting language for adding database content to web pages before they are displayed in a browser. The book's five projects give webpage designers hands-on experience with PHP, covering topics that seem especially suited for e-commerce: storing and retrieving data from MYSQL databases; creating catalogs, shopping carts and forms; and configuring HTTP authentication systems. The book begins with a thorough PHP overview, and includes installation instructions for Linux and Windows platforms. Source code and sample versions of the lessons are available on a companion website. This book provides a hands-on approach to learning PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, which is a server-side scripting language. The book is aimed at both novice as well as advance level readers. A shopping cart, a user authenticator, an e-mail sender, and a graphics-file manipulator are among the best in the book.
- Cost: $39.99
- Pages: 896
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1931841535
PHP Programming for Windows
PHP Programming for Windows the authoritative guide to developing web applications with PHP on the Microsoft Windows platform. It 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. Written by a long-time working programmer for the Windows platform, this book focuses on integrating Windows technologies and PHP for web developers and programmers working on the Windows platform. Offering real-world code and examples, the book walks readers through tasks such as installing PHP, covers PHP programming basics, and discusses how to pair PHP's capabilities with core Windows MSXML, ODBC, ADO, Microsoft SQL Server.
- Cost: $39.99
- Pages: 360
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735711690
Php String Handling Handbook
This book will cover all the most important tasks related to dealing with text/strings in PHP. The core of the book will look at PHP's built in string functions and the two flavours of Regular Expressions that PHP supports. String handling functions and Regular expressions basically solve many of the problems but in a very different way. This book won't just look at how to use them but when and where each is appropriate and what affect that choice has on performance. What this book covers: Regular expressions; String functions in PHP; How PHP internally handles strings; Performance of the various string handling options in PHP; Character sets (ASCII, Unicode); String Searches. This book is aimed at PHP developers who have to deal with and manipulate strings. PHP is a web development language pure and simple, a large portion of Web programming requires strings to be handled and generated, so this skill is extremely important for PHP programmers.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 300
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 186100835X
PHP Web Development
This book is all about making dynamic PHP web sites with Dreamweaver MX . It covers PHP, enough to get the reader up to speed with the technology, and how to use Dreamweaver MX to produce PHP code quickly and efficiently. It's not intended to be a comprehesive PHP reference. It also covers site design and databases and SQL. It uses an example project, a hotel reservation system, that is built up through the chapters to demonstrate the concepts explained. This book is for web professionals who want to use Dreamweaver MX to produce PHP web sites. It doesn't assume any knowledge of PHP. Whilst the book is slim in comparison to some of the heavier tomes out there, after a short introduction to PHP and MySQL, it quickly gets down to business by taking the reader through the development of a hotel booking system. The book ends with sections on creating Server Behaviours and Debugging.
- Cost: $27.14
- Pages: 400
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1904151116
