Programmer's Introduction to PHP
A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0 addresses experienced programmers and Web developers--no matter what language they are familiar with. The book begins with a rapid introduction to PHP's syntax and basic functionality, allowing readers to easily gain a general understanding of the language. The book then moves onto advanced issues like PHP's role in database manipulation, sessions and user-interactivity. The book also examines how PHP can work with XML, Javascript and the Component Object Model (COM). Gilmore fills the book with practical examples in addition to several projects that can be immediately incorporated into any Web site. A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0 shows how to make the most of PHP's mighty capabilities and is invaluable to professional Web developers, regardless of their current level of PHP knowledge. A unique feature of the text is that it reaches all Web developers, no matter what language they are familiar with.
- Cost: $24.47
- Pages: 450
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1893115852
Programming PHP
Programming PHP is a comprehensive guide to PHP, a simple yet powerful language for creating dynamic web content. The book is co-authored by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, so you'll learn not only how to program in PHP, but how to do it well. This authoritative book explains the language syntax and programming techniques of PHP 4, the latest version of the language, in a clear and concise manner. Programming PHP goes into detail on fundamental topics such as functions, strings, arrays, and objects, with numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and good PHP style. Programming PHP also presents application development techniques for building modern web sites. You'll learn how to process web forms, handle session data, interact with relational databases such as MySQL, and create dynamic images and PDF files. The book also covers advanced topics like security, manipulating XML data, and writing your own C-language extensions to PHP.
- Cost: $27.97
- Pages: 524
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1565926102
Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours
Teaches the fundamentals of PHP, and how to access databases, and integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and more. Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to the advanced functions. The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four shows the reader how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches how to access databases and how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and much more. Matt Zandstra is a technical consultant. With his business partner Max Guglielmino he runs Corrosive Web Design, a company specializing in information design, usablity, and the creation of dynamic environments.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 528
- Edition: 2nd edition
- ISBN: 0672323117
Secure PHP Development
Your in depth guide to designing and developing secure PHP applications. It's a hacker's dream come true: over one million Web sites are now vulnerable to attack through recently discovered flaws in the PHP scripting language. So how do you protect your site? In this book, bestselling author Mohammed Kabir provides all the tools you'll need to close this security gap. He presents a collection of 50 secure PHP applications that you can put to use immediately to solve a variety of practical problems. And he includes expert tips and techniques that show you how to write your own secure and efficient applications for your organization. You'll learn how to: Implement the featured applications in business environments such as intranets, Internet Web sites, and system administrations; Develop e-mail and intranet solutions using PHP; Determine the importance of certain coding practices, coding styles, and coding security requirements.
- Cost: $35.00
- Pages: 840
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764549669
Teach Yourself PHP4 in 24 Hours
Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP4 in 24 Hours is divided into five sections that guide you through the language from the basics to the advanced functions. The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. Building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four show you how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches how to access databases and how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and much more. The final section of the book covers advanced functionality including how to debug and optimize scripts, maintain script security, and extend PHP with API. No prior experience of programming is assumed, although some understanding of the Web and of HTML is useful. Zandstra runs a Web design company and has developed software in PHP.
- Cost: $5.89
- Pages: 481
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672318040
TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management
TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management guides you through the powerful, enterprise-level, open source content management system known as TYPO3. The book takes a detailed, practical approach to using, administering, and developing TYPO3 websites. The first section introduces TYPO3 and covers its basic installation and configuration. The second section shows how editors can create and manage content and assets, prepate content for the appropriate media, and integrate content into appropriate applications suchs as a website. Section three administrators will learn how to maintain, monitor, and control TYPO3 systems. In the last section the books shows developers how to extend the out of the box functionalities of TYPO3. Overall you will learn how to: install, configure, customize, administer, and extend TYPO3; create, edit, and manage content; Set up users, permissions, and workflows; Create and manage statistics and logs; and using templates.
- Cost: $59.99
- Platforms: Windows, Unix, Linux
- Pages: 624
- Edition: 1st Edition
- ISBN: 1904811418
Using PHP & MySQL
Together, PHP and MySQL form the most widely used open source database and scripting technologies on the Web today. As a budding Web developer, you need to learn and master PHP and MySQL. Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven Web site using PHP and MySQL from scratch. This book covers everything from installing PHP and MySQL under Windows, Mac O X or Linux, to building a live Web-based content management system. It also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP, and comes complete with a set of PHP and MySQL reference tables that include PHP and MySQL syntax, functions, column types, and more. This book not only provides easy access to all the code samples demonstrated, but, more importantly, it leaves you with the confidence and know-how.
- Cost: $34.95
- Pages: 295
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0957921810
Using PHP and MySQL
Rather than providing a complete guide to the PHP language, Tansley (a systems administrator) focuses on only those aspects necessary to create dynamic web pages. Tansley prefers Linux, and anticipates mainly a Linux audience. The areas covered in the book include form processing, passing information between forms, file uploads to the web server, cookies, session management, mailing clients, database applications, and web authentication. A step-by-step guide through the basics of PHP and MySQL from the basics to advanced features. Releases of PHP up to version 4 are covered. Examples and case studies are provided which are relevant to Windows and Linux users. All components in the book are included on the supporting CD-ROM. Discover how to create dynamic webpages using PHP and MySQL. Learn essentials to PHP programming such as handling form processing, saving state, loops and arrays, strings and pattern matching, and web server variables.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 304
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201734028
Web Application Development
As Web sites and intranets become larger and more complex, static HTML files hit their limits. In the first part of Web Application Development with PHP the authors explain PHP's advanced syntax like classes, recursive functions and variables. They present software development methodologies and coding conventions which are a must-know for industry quality products as well as to help making develop faster and more productive. This part covers also many standard algorithms for tree-structures, string sorting and searching. Part Two focuses on the concept of Web Applications (as opposed to single scripts) and gives much insight into user and session management, e-commerce systems, XML applications and WDDX. Explores advanced aspects of developing for the Web. Discusses how to build applications that provide real value to customers, using XML and other technologies to create effective e-commerce systems, and making large Web sites easy to manage.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735709971
Web Database Applications
What do eBay, Amazon.com and CNN.com have in common? They're all applications that integrate large databases with the Web. The popularity (and power) of these applications stems from their accessibility and usability: thousands of users can access the same data at the same time without theneed to install any additional software on their computers. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. Using PHP, and MySQL, two open source technologies that are often combined to develop web applications, the book offers detailed information on designing relational databases and on web application architecture, both of which will be useful to readers who have never dealt with these issues before. The authors explain the principles behind searching, browsing, storing user data, validating user input, managing user transactions, and security.
- Cost: $31.47
- Pages: 582
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0596000413
