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Programming PHP, 2nd Edition
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Programming PHP, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to PHP 5
and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf)
and other PHP experts. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting
language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more
than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP .NET technology in popularity.
Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility
and convenience.
As the industry standard book on PHP, all of the essentials are covered in a
clear and concise manner. Language syntax and programming techniques are coupled
with numerous examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms.
With style tips and practical programming advice, this book will help you become
not just a PHP programmer, but also a good PHP programmer. Programming
PHP, Second Edition 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
- --Chapters outlining the basics 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 and the
new PDO Library
- --Chapters that show you how to generate dynamic images, create PDF files,
and parse XML files with PHP
- --Advanced topics, such as creating secure scripts, 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 extensions that ship with PHP
About the Authors
Kevin Tatroe has been a Macintosh and Unix programmer for ten years.
Being lazy, he's attracted to languages and frameworks that do much of the work
for you, such as the AppleScript, Perl, and PHP languages and the WebObjects
and Cocoa programming environments. Kevin, his wife Jenn, his son Hadden, and
two cats live on the edge of the rural plains of Colorado, just far away enough
from the mountains to avoid the worst snowfall, and just close enough to avoid
tornadoes. The house is filled with LEGO creations, action figures, and other
toys.
Rasmus Lerdorf started the PHP Project back in 1995 and has been actively
involved in PHP development ever since. Also involved in a number of other Open
Source projects, Rasmus is a longtime Apache contributor and foundation member.
He is the author of the first edition of the PHP Pocket Reference, and
the co-author of Programming PHP.
Peter MacIntyre lives and works in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,
Canada. He has over 16 years of experience in the information technology industry,
primarily in the area of software development.
Peter's technical skill set includes several client/server tools and relational
database systems such as PHP, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Active Server Pages,
and CA-Visual Objects.
Peter is certified by ZEND Corporation on PHP 4.x and has contributed writing
material for Using Visual Objects (Que Corp.), Using PowerBuilder 5 (Que Corp.),
ASP.NET Bible (Wiley Pub.), and Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages
(Course Technology).
Peter is also currently a contributing editor and author to the on-line and
in-print magazine called php|architect (www.phparch.com). He has also spoken
several times at North American and International computer conferences including
CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo
in Melbourne, Australia.
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