Professional PHP4 Programming - Softcover

Thomas, Deepak; Etc.; Parise, Jon; Rawat, Harish; Moore, James; Et Al

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9781861006912: Professional PHP4 Programming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861006918 ISBN 13: 9781861006912

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2002

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PHP is an open source, server-side HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Outside of being browser-independent, it offers a simple and universal cross-platform solution for e-commerce, complex web, and database-driven applications.

Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding - among other things - FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming.

What does this book cover?

The whys and wherefores of PHP4

PHP installation on *nix, Windows, and MacOS X

Sessions and cookies, coding FTP clients, network-related function calls, and directory services

PHP support for LDAP

Multi-tiered development using PHP

PHP's interaction with XML

PHP with MySQL

PHP with PostgreSQL and ODBC

Securing, optimizing, and internationalizing PHP applications

PHP extension libraries

A real world employee directory, an online library application, and a GTK interface to the application

Case studies on a user privilege system and a multi-tiered WML-based shopping cart

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From the Publisher:

This book is a resource for working PHP developers who want to take their skills to the next level. Although it assumes a conceptual familiarity with programming and databases in general, anyone who knows PHP enough to code and maintain small web applications can use this book. We also assume an interest in designing large web sites and general network programming to make full use of this book.

About the Author:

Luis Argerich is a development and technology manager for Salutia, a leading health-solutions provider in South America, and a teacher at the University of Buenos Aires. Luis has been interested in PHP since version 2.0 and has used it in conjunction with XML for projects such as search engines, transactional systems, web applications, web services, and others.

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