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41. | Overview: Beginning PHP 5.3
Serving as a complete introduction to PHP 5.3, this book walks you through all the major concepts of PHP in a way that's easy to follow, with plenty of code snippets illustrating each concept to aid learning. You'll discover how to install and configure PHP 5.3, how to get started with simple programs, and the basic building blocks of PHP such as variables, operators, expressions, arrays, and objects. Coverage working with files, XML, and MySQL; building Web applications with PHP; exploring the PEAR library; handling e-mail; and creating Web graphics.
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42. | Overview: Professional CodeIgniter®
If you're a PHP developer, you can build Rails-like applications without learning a new language by following the hands-on tutorials in Professional CodeIgniter. In this book, find an overview of MVC and agile technologies, model and schema for products, helpers and libraries, Ajax and Scriptaculous, and explanations of the creation of applications like content management, blogs, and forums. Follow the step-by-step instructions for building and perfecting each application with CodeIgniter, and you will learn how to avoid everyday problems that other reference manuals don't address.
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43. |  By: Francesco Trucchia; Jacopo Romei Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 21-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro PHP Refactoring
Many businesses and organizations depend on older high-value PHP software that risks abandonment because it is impossible to maintain. The reasons for this may be that the software is not well designed; there is only one developer (the one who created the system) who can develop it because he didn't use common design patterns and documentation; or the code is procedural, not object oriented. With this book, you'll learn to identify problem code and refactor it to create more effective applications using test-driven design.
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44. |  PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fourth Edition By: Larry Ullman Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 09-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 19-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fourth Edition With PHP for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual
QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a
tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to
learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference
guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to
teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source
scripting language. Leading technology author Larry Ullman guides
readers through the latest developments including use and awareness
of HTML5 with PHP. Other addressed changes include removal of
outdated functions and...
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45. |  Pro PHP Application Performance Tuning PHP Web Projects for Maximum Performance By: Armando Padilla; Tim Hawkins Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 15-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro PHP Application Performance Tuning PHP Web Projects for Maximum Performance
This book contains tips, tricks, and techniques to make new and existing PHP applications much faster and less resource-hungry. Author Armando Padilla looks at all major sections of the PHP application stack—from server hardware to database and web server performance. PHP program application performance is the center of this book, and Padilla shows you how to improve performance by best practices, proper design, and best-of-breed tools.
Padilla starts out by establishing performance testing and benchmarking methodology using common open source and browser-based testing tools. He then...
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46. |  By: Jason Lengstorf Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 22-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 15-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro PHP and jQuery
This book is for intermediate programmers interested in building AJAX web applications using jQuery and PHP. Along with teaching some advanced PHP techniques, it will teach you how to take your dynamic applications to the next level by adding a JavaScript layer with jQuery.
Learn to utilize built-in PHP functions to build calendar tools.
Learn how jQuery can be used for AJAX, animation, client-side validation, and more.
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47. |  By: Chris Snyder; Thomas Myer; Michael Southwell Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 09-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 10-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | PHP security, just like PHP itself, has advanced. Updated for PHP 5.3, the second edition of this authoritative PHP security book covers foundational PHP security topics like SQL injection, XSS, user authentication, and secure PHP development. Chris Snyder and Tom Myer also dive into recent developments like mobile security, the impact of Javascript, and the advantages of recent PHP hardening efforts.Pro PHP Security, Second Edition will serve as your complete guide for taking defensive and proactive security measures within your PHP applications. Beginners in secure programming will find a...
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48. |  By: Michael Peacock; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 21-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 20-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP 5 Social Networking
Create a powerful and dynamic Social Networking website in PHP by building a flexible framework
Build a flexible Social Networking framework using PHP which can be extended to fit the needs of any Social Networking site
Develop a suitable structure for our framework, with MVC to structure the architecture and a Registry to store core Objects
Allow users to connect and communicate with each other using communication with friends list, flexible user profiles, messages, discussions, and much more
Plan marketing and scaling strategies, to entice more users and ensure the site can...
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49. |  PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, Second Edition By: David Powers Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 16-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, Second Edition
This is the second edition of David Power's highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the first edition and to offer the latest techniques--a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.
You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the...
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50. |  By: Shu-Wai Chow Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 13-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 29-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHPEclipse: A User Guide
Take advantage of the leading open source integrated development environment to develop, organize, and debug your PHP web development projects.
Compact guide to using Eclipse and PHPEclipse for web development
Slash development time by improving the efficiency of your PHP coding and organizing your projects in the PHPEclipse environment
Learn to use Eclipse for debugging PHP applications, interfacing with databases, and managing source code
No previous knowledge of Eclipse required
In Detail
The fusion of Eclipse, the leading open source development environment, and...
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51. |  Building Online Communities with phpBB 2 By: Jeremy Rogers; Mike Lothar; Stoyan Stefanov Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 10-MAY-2005 Insert Date: 29-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Online Communities with phpBB 2
A practical guide to creating and maintaining online discussion forums with phpBB, the leading free open source PHP/MySQL-based bulletin board
Simple, practical steps to build and customize your own phpBB-powered online community
Learn from experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts to get the most from phpBBFull coverage of powerful features including customization, administration and developing your own modifications
In Detail
phpBB is a free, open source Internet community application, with outstanding discussion forums and membership management. Written in the PHP...
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52. |  CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development By: Adam Griffiths Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 26-APR-2010 Insert Date: 01-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development
Become a CodeIgniter expert with professional tools, techniques and extended libraries
Learn expert CodeIgniter techniques and move beyond the realms of the User Guide
Create mini-applications that teach you a technique and allow you to easily build extras on top of them
Create CodeIgniter Libraries to minimize code bloat and allow for easy transitions across multiple projects
Improving navigation and optimizing result preparation
Utilize third-party APIs (Twitter oAuth and Facebook Connect) and make use of some less-known helper functions – CodeIgniter's hidden gems
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53. |  By: Gregory Beaver Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 30-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The PEAR Installer Manifesto
The PEAR Installer maintainer shows you the power of this code management and deployment system to revolutionize your PHP application development
Learn how to effectively organize your application development from the creator of the latest versions of the PEAR Installer, version 1.4.0 onwardsBring the power of versioning and rollbacks to your live website
Embed the PEAR Installer in your web applications to manage plug-ins from a remote server
In Detail
PEAR stands for PHP Extension and Application Repository, and its primary purpose is to support code re-use. PEAR...
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54. |  By: Dennis Popel Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 30-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning PHP Data Objects
A Beginner's Guide to PHP Data Objects, Database Connection Abstraction Library for PHP 5
An overview of PDO
Creating a database and connecting to it
Error Handling
Advanced features
In Detail
PDO is lighter, faster, and more powerful than existing PHP data abstraction interfaces. PDO is a common interface to different databases that must be used with a database-specific PDO driver to access a particular database server: the PDO extension does not provide a database abstraction by itself; it doesn't rewrite SQL, emulate missing database features, or perform any...
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55. |  The IBM i Programmer's Guide to PHP By: Jeff Olen; Kevin Schroeder Publisher: MC Press Publication Date: 01-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 23-JUL-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The IBM i Programmer's Guide to PHP
This is the first book to comprehensively address PHP and how it can—and should—be deployed on the IBM i. With this IBM i-specific point of view, the authors examine how to transfer skills from a green screen environment to the Web, become intimately familiar with PHP's commonly used features, and help start down the road of highly interactive Web-based application development.
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56. |  By: Carsten Lucke; Stoyan Stefanov Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 10-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 25-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Programming with PEAR
XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs
Maximize your productivity through the use of proven, powerful, reusable PHP components
In-depth coverage of a range of important PEAR packages
Many code examples provide a clear and practical guidance
In Detail
PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a framework and distribution system for reusable, high-quality PHP components, available in the form of "packages"
In this book, you will learn how to use a number of the most powerful PEAR packages available to boost your PHP development productivity. By...
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57. |  By: Tad Boomer Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 16-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 25-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Websites with e107
A step by step tutorial to getting your e107 website up and running fast
Get your e107 website up fast
Simple and practical guide to mastering e107
Customize and extend your e107 site with new templates and the CMS plug-in
In Detail
e107 is a PHP-based content management system that uses the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. e107 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is completely free, totally customizable and in constant development. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites,...
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58. |  Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 By: Hasin Hayder Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 30-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 25-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5
Learn to leverage PHP5's OOP features to write manageable applications with ease
General OOP concepts explained
Implement Design Patterns in your applications and solve common OOP Problems
Take full advantage of native built-in objects
Test your code by writing unit tests with PHPUnit
In Detail
Some basic objected-oriented features were added to PHP3; with PHP5 full support for object-oriented programming was added to PHP. Object-oriented programming was basically introduced to ease the development process as well as reduce the time of development by reducing the...
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59. |  PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Third Edition By: Matt Zandstra Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 22-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Third Edition
This book takes you beyond the PHP basics to the enterprise development practices used by professional programmers. Updated for PHP 5.3 with new sections on closures, namespaces, and continuous integration, this edition will teach you about object features such as abstract classes, reflection, interfaces, and error handling. You'll also discover object tools to help you learn more about your classes, objects, and methods.
Then you'll move into design patterns and the principles that make patterns powerful. You'll learn both classic design patterns and enterprise and database patterns...
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60. |  By: Jose Argudo; David Upton Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 09-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 08-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CodeIgniter 1.7
Improve your PHP coding productivity with the free compact open-source MVC CodeIgniter framework!
Clear, structured tutorial on working with CodeIgniter for rapid PHP application development
Careful explanation of the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and its MVC architecture
Use CodeIgniter with databases, HTML forms, files, images, sessions, and email
Full of ideas and examples with instructions making it ideal for beginners to CodeIgniter
Full of ideas and examples with instructions making it ideal for beginners to CodeIgniter
In Detail
CodeIgniter (CI) is a...
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