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Foundation PHP 5 for Flash View Larger Image | David Powers
friends of ED, Paperback, Published March 2005, 699 pages, ISBN 1590594665 | List Price: $44.99
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The original Foundation PHP for Flash title was rightly regarded as a
must-have title when it came to wanting to learn just how to make your
Flash sites make use of backend technologies, that was published way
back in the days of Flash 5 and PHP 4, and things move pretty fast in
the world of web design!
This latest, completely rewritten, edition again brings together three
of the web's hottest technologies--Flash, the server-side language PHP,
and the MySQL database system. Bringing things bang up to date,
using ActionScript 2.0, PHP 5.0, and MySQL 4.1, the book has been
designed to be version-neutral. In other words, you can be confident
that you're working with the latest standards, but that your
applications won't break if deployed on an older server. The book also
provides a brief introduction to an alternative database system, SQLite,
which is now automatically bundled with PHP 5 and requires no
installation.
At each stage of the book you'll be given an overview of a new area of
PHP/MySQL, introducing you to the syntax while showing how it compares
to ActionScript, and how it integrates with Flash to produce
increasingly complicated applications. For example, earlier chapters
cover things such as getting data from PHP to Flash and back again,
variables, arrays, string manipulation, validating user input, and
feedback forms. Later on, it moves on to more advanced subjects such as
creating databases via the MySQL console and via phpMyAdmin,
manipulating database data via a Flash interface, displaying data from
an RSS feed in Flash, persisting data with sessions, and creating a full
blown content management system.
In addition, to get you up and running, the book features a detailed
guide to setting up your environment - PHP, MySQL, and the Apache web
server - along with extensive troubleshooting information.
PHP is the language of choice on nearly 18 million domains, and MySQL
has more than five million active users, including industry leaders like
Google, the Associated Press, Sony, and NASA. They're open source and
free; and with the help of this book, you'll see that they're easy and
fun to learn.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Ready to work with PHP
Chapter 2: Flash Breaks Free
Chapter 3: Calculations and Decisions
Chapter 4: Of Strings and Things
Chapter 5: Working Smarter with Arrays and Loops
Chapter 6: PHP and Databases: Packing Real Power Behind your Applications
Chapter 7: Playing with Words
Chapter 8: Creating a User Registration Database
Chapter 9: Protecting your Data with Sessions
Chapter 10: Keeping Control with a Content Management System
Chapter 11: Working with Dates
Chapter 12: Working with Multiple Tables and XML
Appendix A: When things Go Wrong with PHP and MySQL
Appendix B: Converting Applications to ActionScript 1.0
Appendix C: Installing Older Versions of MySQL on Windows
Appendix D: Using Languages Other Than English in MySQL
Appendix E: Essential MySQL Maintenance
About the Author
David Powers has been professionally involved with the electronic media for some 30 years, mostly in radio and television--he was BBC Tokyo correspondent in the late 1980s and early 1990s--but more recently with the Internet. He built his first site in 1995, and was instantly hooked. Eventually, the sheer tedium of updating content convinced him there must be a better way. After a brief flirtation with ASP, he experimented with PHP, and found himself hooked yet again.
A fluent Japanese speaker, Powers specializes in building Japanese-English bilingual websites, writing about Japan, and translating Japanese (he’s translated several plays). He co-authored Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004 (ISBN 1590593081) and PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004 (ISBN 1590593502). Powers also worked as technical reviewer on a number of web-related titles for Apress.
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