With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP’s success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code to solve common PHP problems. It focuses on providing real code solutions to problems, allowing the reader to learn by seeing exactly what is happening behind the scenes to get your solution. Because a real-life situation will rarely match the book’s example problems precisely, PHP 5 in Practice explains the solution well enough that you will understand it and can learn how to truly solve your own problem

This book covers middle-tier programming with PHP.
PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. It is an open source technology, rapidly gaining popularity as a scripting language for people running dynamic websites. One of its major attractions over Perl, JavaScript and other scripting languages is that PHP has a built-in database integration layer and seamless IP connectivity, with LDAP and TCP as well as the IMAP mail interface.

Features
Real world, practical experience and techniques
From installation and configuration of the PHP engine to advanced dynamic application design
Definitive coverage of core PHP language and database addressing:
MySQL is covered in depth.
Practical e-commerce and business scripting including database application development, together with PHP and XML applications.
LDAP connectivity addressed.

Dreamweaver CS4 is a large step brazen in conditions of formation with a rest of a CS4 apartment (Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.), as well as additionally includes a total horde of sparkling brand brand brand new facilities of a own. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, as well as PHP concentrates upon removing a most appropriate out of Dreamweaver CS4, rsther than than starting in to each menu object as well as toolbar icon. The importance is upon building websites agreeable with a ultimate web standards, regulating CSS, JavaScript libraries (with sold importance upon Spry, Adobe’s doing of Ajax), as well as PHP.

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Erst seit einem Jahr entwickle ich ausschliesslich objektorientiert, vornehmlich in PHP – wobei dies _nicht_ meine Hauptbetätigung ist. Über Design Patterns bin ich zwar schon gestolpert, wurde aber von der oft theoretischen bzw. Java-lastigen Behandlung abgehalten, obwohl ich – ohne es zu wissen – bereits das ein oder andere Pattern selbst angewendet habe.

Dieses Buch entpuppte sich für mich als Offenbarung (ich habe es verschlungen), denn der Autor hat es geschafft, alle vorgestellten Design Patterns nachvollziehbar anhand eines einzigen PHP-Projektes (Autovermietung) zu veranschaulichen – und zwar mit je Pattern gleicher, strukturierter Herangehensweise. Dies erlaubt mir die Nutzung dieses Werkes als späteres Nachschlagewerk für die PHP-Praxis.

Hervorheben möchte ich den bei vielen Patterns vom Autor benutzten Stil, ausgehend von einem Design-Problem eine Anfangslösung zu präsentieren, die er dann schrittweise zur optimalen Lösung anhand von PHP-Beispielen ausbaut. So lernte ich gleich mögliche Stolpersteine kennen, die mir beim Design begegnen könnten.

Auch die Erläuterung von OOP speziell in PHP sowie der Neuerungen in PHP 5.3 empfand ich als äusserst hilfreich. Das Buch leidet auch nicht unter irgendwelchen Übersetzungsproblemen inhaltlicher als auch sprachlicher Natur (da deutscher Autor), was bei technischer Einstiegsliteratur für mich eine Rolle spielt.

Fazit: Uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert.

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Book Description
From rather humble beginnings as the Personal Home Page scripting language, PHP has found its way into almost every server, corporation, and dev shop in the world. On an average day, somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million coders do something in PHP. Even when you use a well-understood language like PHP, building a modern web application requires tools that decrease development time and cost while improving code quality. Frameworks such as Ruby-on-Rails and Django have been getting a lot of attention as a result.

For PHP coders, the Zend Framework offers that same promise without the need to move away from PHP. This powerful collection of components can be used in part or as a whole to speed up the development process. Zend Framework has the backing of Zend Technologies; the driving force behind the PHP programming language in which it is written. The first production release of the Zend Framework became available in July of 2007.

Zend Framework in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that shows how to use the Zend Framework to create web-based applications and web services. This book takes you on an over-the-shoulder tour of the components of the Zend Framework as you build a high quality, real-world web application. This book is organized around the techniques you’ll use every day as a web developer “data handling, forms, authentication, and so forth. As you follow the running example, you’ll learn to build interactive Ajax-driven features into your application without sacrificing nuts-and-bolts considerations like security and performance.

This book is aimed at the competent PHP developer who wants to master framework-driven web development. Zend Framework in Action goes beyond the docs but still provides quick access to the most common topics encountered in the development of web applications.

About the Author
Rob Allen is a full-time PHP developer and contributor to the Zend Framework, developing the Zend_Config component. He has also written a popular getting-started tutorial available from www.akrabat.com. Rob is the Technical Director of Big Room Internet. Nick Lo is a web designer, developer, partner, and general “wearer of many hats” with Ingredients, located in Byron Bay, Austrailia. He was an early participant in the Zend Framework community and has published several popular tutorials. Steven Brown is Head of Technology for New Beach Media where he oversees design, development, operations, and infrastructure. He specializes in critical thinking and analysis of mechanical and logical systems.

DotNetNuke creator Shaun Walker leads this superlative author team of MVPs while delivering the latest update of a bestseller. They offer complete coverage of the major revisions to DotNetNuke 5, such as more granular administration, widgets, XHTML compliance, improved social networking, workflow, and better content management. They thoroughly cover installing, configuring, administering, and developing modules for DotNetNuke. Youll learn portal and host administration, configuration in a hosted environment, developing and working with modules, designing a DotNetNuke portal with skins, integrating workflow in DotNetNuke, using DotNetNuke social networking tools, and much more.

Learn to create Web pages quickly and easily with PHP—no prior programming experience required! PHP 6 Fast & Easy Web Development provides a step-by-step, learn-by-example path to learning through easy-to-understand language and illustrations. Unlike the verbose text-only chapters found in most programming books, the Fast & Easy Web Development style appeals to users who are new to PHP, or to programming in general.

The first three chapters are dedicated to getting Apache, MySQL, and PHP up and running on your Windows or Linux machine. You’ll be surprised at how simple it is, and how quickly you’ll be working. From there, you’ll learn how to create multi-part scripts, display dynamic content, work with MySQL databases, restrict access to certain pages of your site using PHP, create contact management systems, and work with XML. After completing this book, you will have a strong foundation in the basics of Web-based technologies and application design, and will be prepared to learn more advanced topics and programming methods.

About the Author
Matt Telles is a senior consultant working in the software development world. His experience includes both desktop and web development using a variety of languages and platforms. He is the author of seven other books ranging from C++ to Python.

Julie Meloni is the technical director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA. She’s been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and even Serbian.

Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL provides a layperson’s guide to web programming for the casual web designer, student, or serious professional. The book explains how to build powerful interactive sites, whether you’re designing a bulletin board, game, or web store. As part of the Just Enough series, the book provides “just enough” information to get you started quickly, without overloading you with unnecessary details.

After a brief introduction, the book concisely explains the XML, XHTML, and CSS concepts you need to understand to start creating web sites. From there, you’ll start programming and learning the basics of client side and server side scripting and web databases. Then it’s time to put it all together using Content Management Systems. The book includes several chapters on emerging Web 2.0 and how you can put it to use to create your own interactive sites quickly. Part of the beauty of Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL is its breadth of coverage. By cutting out what you don’t need, the book helps you learn a lot about web programming, and helps you put all of the information together to make a site quickly. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!

About the Author
Guy W. Lecky-Thompson is an experienced author in the field of video game design and software development, whose articles have been published in various places, including Gamasutra and the seminal Game Programming Gems. He is also the author of Infinite Game Universe: Mathematical Techniques;Infinite Game Universe, Volume 2: Level Design Terrain, and Sound; and Video Game Design Revealed.

Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips.

Inside, you’ll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XML code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL widgets and extensions. Plus, you’ll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing.

• Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories
• Build complex data structures using PHP’s array manipulation API
• Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code 
• Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content
• Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms
• Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions
• Authenticate and track users with sessions and cookies
• Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
• Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
• Interface with different server types, network protocols, and file formats
• Perform efficient exception handling and error processing

Combining over 300 pages of instruction with access to almost 5 hours of online video, Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework is the ultimate learning guide to building powerful websites with the world’s most popular Web development language.

Written by popular PHP author W. Jason Gilmore, you’ll master the Zend Framework by following along with the creation of a community website for video gamers. Among other topics, you’ll learn how to:

* Manage Web Forms: Create web forms, and validate user-provided data

* Send E-mails: Send unformatted and HTML e-mails through your website

* Create Community Features: Register users, manage logins, and recover forgotten passwords

* Extend Your Network: Integrate with popular online services such as Google Maps, Amazon Web Services, the Facebook Platform, and PayPal

All readers are provided with access to the EasyPHPWebsites.com website, including access to almost five hours of online video, direct communication with the author, forum access, and a regularly updated DRM-Free PDF!