Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762 EAN: 9780071508544 ISBN: 0071508546 Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 590 Publication Date: December 10, 2007 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Sales Rank: 196903 Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP--Covers PHP 5.2
Build dynamic, cross-browser Web applications with PHP--the server-side programming language that's taken the Internet by storm. Through detailed explanations and downloadable code examples, this comprehensive guide shows you, step-by-step, how to configure PHP, create PHP-enabled Web pages, and put every advanced development tool to work.
PHP: The Complete Referenceexplains how to personalize the PHP work space, define operators and variables, manipulate strings and arrays, deploy HTML forms and buttons, and process user input. You'll learn how to access database information, track client-side preferences using cookies, execute FTP and e-mail transactions, and publish your applications to the Web. You'll also get in-depth coverage of PHP's next-generation Web 2.0 design features, including AJAX, XML, and RSS.
Install PHP and set up a customized development environment
Work with variables, operators, loops, strings, arrays, and functions
Integrate HTML controls, text fields, forms, radio buttons, and checkboxes
Accept and validate user-entered data from Web pages
Simplify programming using PHP's object-oriented tools
Build blogs, guest books, and feedback pages with server-side file storage
Write MySQL scripts that retrieve, modify, and update database information
Set cookies, perform FTP transactions, and send e-mails from PHP sessions
Build AJAX-enabled Web pages
Draw graphics on the server
Create XML components and add RSS feeds
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Rating: - [NOT SO] Complete Reference
PHP, The Complete Reference may be a good book to start learning from. In addition, it does touch on most of the major topics.
However, calling it "Complete" is a joke. I have been writing software for over 40 years, and this is the first language "reference" book I have found that does not fully describe the built-in functions supported by the language. For example, on pages 82-84 the author lists about 100 string functions in a 2 column table. The first column is the function name, ... Read More
Rating: - Good book for absolute beginners
This book is okay as a beginning reference. The title may give the impression that it's a book you'll want to keep on your shelf and return to frequently for years to come. That probably won't be the case for most readers who go on to write a lot of PHP, so a better title might have been "Getting Started with PHP", or something like that. The banner on the back of the book, which says "Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP", is a lot more predictive of the book's contents.
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Rating: - Very good - so far
As a software developer, I primarily work with the ASP.NET technology and have been learning to apply Ajax to my work. A small segment of my work is with PHP/MySQL. I picked-up this book at Barnes & Noble (my Sunday library and Starbucks experience) and found the subject of Ajax to be very well explained.
I purchased this book solely for the Chapters 12 and 13 coverage of Ajax and have found it to be worth the purchase price alone. I look forward to reading the rest of the book as ... Read More
- [NOT SO] Complete Reference
- Very good - so far
