PHP

Advanced PHP for Web Professionals





Product Details

* Paperback: 368 pages
* Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (November 8, 2002)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0130085391
* ISBN-13: 978-0130085399

From the Back Cover

* Build complex, PHP-driven Web sites—fast!
* Discover powerful new PHP techniques, hands on!
* Learn all-new techniques based on PHP-GTK and PEAR::DB
* Master XML parsing, user authentication, forms processing, data mining, and much more

Take your PHP programming skills to the next level!

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; and much more!

Take PHP to the limit... and beyond!

* Manage sessions more effectively
* Interact with multiple databases via PEAR::DB
* Improve your form processing scripts
* Parse large files and perform data mining
* Authenticate users by IP address, database query, or HTTP authentication
* Create custom error handlers
* Dump database contents into XML files
* Use PHP-GTK to build client-side cross-platform GUI applications
* And more...


About the Author

CHRISTOPHER COSENTINO is currently a technical writer for Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been a freelance Web developer since 1996, specializing in the use of PHP to build e-commerce applications. He is author of Essential PHP for Web Professionals (Prentice Hall PTR).


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Book description

Programming PHP is a comprehensive guide to PHP, a simple yet powerful language for creating dynamic web content. Filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, this book is a detailed reference to the language and its applications, including such topics as form processing, sessions, databases, XML, and graphics. This book covers PHP 4.

PHP is a simple yet powerful open-source scripting language for creating dynamic web content. The millions of web sites powered by PHP are testament to its popularity and ease of use. PHP is used by both programmers, who appreciate its flexibility and speed, and web designers, who value its accessibility and convenience. Programming PHP is an authoritative guide to PHP 4 and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf. This book explains PHP language syntax and programming techniques in a clear and concise manner, with numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms. The book also includes style tips and practical programming advice that will help you become not just a PHP programmer, but a good PHP programmer. Programming PHP covers everything you need to know to create effective web applications with PHP. Contents include:

* Detailed information on the basics of the PHP language, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
* Separate chapters on the fundamental topics of functions, strings, arrays, and objects
* Coverage of common PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies
* Material on interacting with relational databases, such as MySQL and Oracle, using the database-independent PEAR DB library
* Chapters on generating dynamic images, creating PDF files, and parsing XML files with PHP
* Advanced topics, like creating secure script, error handling, performance tuning, and writing your own C language extensions to PHP
* A handy quick reference to all the core functions in PHP and all the standard


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