Php: The Complete Reference (PROGRAMMING & WEB DEV - OMG) - Softcover

Holzner, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071508546 ISBN 13: 9780071508544

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007

Synopsis

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Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP--Covers PHP 5.2

Build dynamic, cross-browser Web applications with PHP--the server-side programming language that's taken the Internet by storm. Through detailed explanations and downloadable code examples, this comprehensive guide shows you, step-by-step, how to configure PHP, create PHP-enabled Web pages, and put every advanced development tool to work.

PHP: The Complete Reference explains how to personalize the PHP work space, define operators and variables, manipulate strings and arrays, deploy HTML forms and buttons, and process user input. You'll learn how to access database information, track client-side preferences using cookies, execute FTP and e-mail transactions, and publish your applications to the Web. You'll also get in-depth coverage of PHP's next-generation Web 2.0 design features, including AJAX, XML, and RSS.

• Install PHP and set up a customized development environment
  
• Work with variables, operators, loops, strings, arrays, and functions
  
• Integrate HTML controls, text fields, forms, radio buttons, and checkboxes
  
• Accept and validate user-entered data from Web pages
  
• Simplify programming using PHP's object-oriented tools
  
• Build blogs, guest books, and feedback pages with server-side file storage
  
• Write MySQL scripts that retrieve, modify, and update database information
  
• Set cookies, perform FTP transactions, and send e-mails from PHP sessions
  
• Build AJAX-enabled Web pages
  
• Draw graphics on the server
  
• Create XML components and add RSS feeds
  

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Holzner is the award-winning author of 108 books on computing, specializing in online topics like XML. His books have sold over two million copies, and have been translated into 23 languages. He's been a contributing editor to PC Magazine, and has been on the faculty of both Cornell University and MIT. He's been using XML since it first appeared, and routinely communicates with members of various W3C XML working committees (responsible for setting XML standards). Steve has written many books on XML, including Inside XML (several weeks in the Amazon top 100 bestsellers), Real World XML, Ajax for Dummies, Secrets of RSS, and dozens of others that involve the use of XML. He also teaches a course around the country on XML to Fortune 500 company programmers.

Synopsis:

This is the definitive text on PHP - the dominant programming language of the Web. Covering basic through advanced functionality, "PHP: The Complete Reference" explains how to develop dynamic Web applications, such as guest books, chat rooms, and shopping carts. All essential topics are included - data handling, object-oriented programming, databases, AJAX, XML, security, and more. The book covers the latest PHP version, 5.2, and all examples are platform-independent.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071508546
• ISBN 13: 9780071508544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608