PHP Cookbook

by David Sklar (Author), Adam Trachtenberg (Author), David Sklar (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges. PHP Cookbook has a wealth of solutions for problems that you'll face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples -- or recipes -- for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use the new language features in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new PDO data access extension. New sections on classes and objects are included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP/REST architectures. With each recipe, the authors include a discussion that explains the logic and concepts underlying the solution.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  PHP is a simple yet powerful open source scripting language that has become a big player in Web development. Over a million Web sites, from large corporate sites to small personal sites, are using PHP to serve dynamic Web content. PHP's broad feature set, approachable syntax, and support for different operating systems and Web servers make it an ideal language for rapid Web development. This is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for PHP programmers. The book contains a collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or recipe - short, focused pieces of code that you can insert directly into your applications. Also included are explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations. The recipes in the cookbook range from simple tasks, such as sending a data base query and fetching URLs, to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks, such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts. This book contains over 250 recipes on the following topics: working with basic data types, including strings, numbers, dates and times, and arrays; PHP building blocks, such as variables, functions, classes, and objects; Web programming, including forms, database access, and XML; useful features like regular expressions, encryption and security, graphics, internationalization and localization, and Internet services; working with files and directories; command-line PHP and PHP-GTK; and PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository.