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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional
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W. Jason Gilmore, Robert H. Treat
Apress, Paperback, Published February 2006, 850 pages, ISBN 1590595475
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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. Youll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.

 

"I think this is a great book for beginners especially those curious about PostgreSQL."

— Joe Topjian, Adminspotting.net

 

 

Table of Contents

About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewers
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 An Introduction to PHP
Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring Apache and PHP
Chapter 3 PHP Basics
Chapter 4 Functions
Chapter 5 Arrays
Chapter 6 Object-Oriented PHP
Chapter 7 Advanced OOP Features
Chapter 8 Error and Exception Handling
Chapter 9 Strings and Regular Expressions
Chapter 10 Working with the File and Operating System
Chapter 11 PEAR
Chapter 12 Date and Time
Chapter 13 Forms and Navigational Cues
Chapter 14 Authentication
Chapter 15 Handling File Uploads
Chapter 16 Networking
Chapter 17 PHP and LDAP
Chapter 18 Session Handlers
Chapter 19 Templating with Smarty
Chapter 20 Web Services
Chapter 21 Secure PHP Programming
Chapter 22 SQLite
Chapter 23 Introducing PDO
Chapter 24 Introducing PostgreSQL
Chapter 25 Installing PostgreSQL
Chapter 26 PostgreSQL Administration
Chapter 27 The Many PostgreSQL Clients
Chapter 28 From Databases to Datatypes
Chapter 29 Securing PostgreSQL
Chapter 30 PHPfs PostgreSQL Functionality
Chapter 31 Practical Database Queries
Chapter 32 Views and Rules
Chapter 33 PostgreSQL Functions
Chapter 34 PostgreSQL Triggers
Chapter 35 Indexes and Searching
Chapter 36 Transactions
Chapter 37 Importing and Exporting Data
Index

 

 

About the Authors

W. Jason Gilmore is a Columbus, Ohio–based developer, consultant, writer, and editor. He’s a cofounder of the CodeMash conference and is a member of the 2008 MySQL Conference speaker selection board. In his previous capacity as Apress’s open source editor, he fostered the publication of more than 60 books, along the way helping to transform the open source line into one of the industry’s most respected publishing programs.

Through W.J. Gilmore, LLC, (http://www.wjgilmore.com/) Jason provides an array of consulting and web development services to small businesses around the country. Contact Jason at wjATwjgilmore.com if you’re looking for competent, timely, and cost–effective services.

Robert Treat is a longtime open source user, developer, and advocate. He is helping to maintain the postgresql.org websites, working on phpPgAdmin, and contributing to the PostgreSQL core. He has contributed several articles to the PostgreSQL “techdocs” site, was a two-time presenter at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention, worked as the PHP Foundry Admin on SourceForge.net, and has been recognized as a “Major Developer” for his work within the PostgreSQL community.




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