Creating Interactive Websites with PHP and Web Services - Softcover

Rosebrock, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782142796 ISBN 13: 9780782142792

Publisher: Sybex, 2003

Synopsis

Build dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL and extend those sites with Web Services. PHP and MySQL are great tools for building database-driven websites. There's nothing new about that. What is new is the environment in which your site operates a world rich (and growing richer) in web services that can add value and functionality in many different ways. "Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services" walks you through every step of a major web project a content-management system teaching you both the basic techniques and little-known tricks you need to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to develop dynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here's some of what you'll find covered inside: adding, deleting, and displaying data with a custom content-management system; building a template system with PHP; interacting with web services using PHP and MySQL; creating and managing a user system and a shopping cart; processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third-party payment solutions; tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL; enhancing your site with third-party scripts. Tons of examples, complete with explanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress, whether you're a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book is platform-agnostic, so it doesn't matter if you're deploying your site on Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Rosebrock, owner of PHP Freaks (http://www.phpfreaks.com), a community of developers helping one another learn and troubleshoot PHP. Eric has developed web pages with HTML, JavaScript, and ASP for 7 years and has been a professional PHP developer for 2 years. He has extensive knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Apache Web Server, and the Linux. Eric was a Windows 2k Sys Admin for the U.S.A.F. for 5 years, and has maintained over 2,000 workstations, 50 Windows 2k and NT servers, and IIS web servers.

From the Back Cover

Build Dynamic Websites with PHP and MySQL—and Extend Those Sites withWeb Services

PHP and MySQL are great tools for buildingdatabase-driven websites. There's nothing new about that. What is new isthe environment in which your site operates—a world rich (and growingricher) in web services that can add value and functionality in many differentways. Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services walks youthrough every step of a major web project—a content-managementsystem—teaching you both the basic techniques and little-known tricks youneed to build successful web sites. And you can use those skills to developdynamic applications that will meet your special requirements. Here’s someof what you’ll find covered inside:

• Adding,deleting, and displaying data with a custom content-managementsystem
• Building a template system with PHP
• Interacting with web servicesusing PHP and MySQL
• Creating and managing a user system and a shoppingcart
• Processing credit card payments using merchant accounts and third-partypayment solutions
• Tracking site statistics using PHP and MySQL
• Enhancingyour site with third-party scripts

Tons of examples, complete withexplanations and supported by online source code, will speed your progress,whether you’re a true beginner or already have PHP experience. This book isplatform-agnostic, so it doesn’t matter if you’re deploying your siteon Linux or Windows. You also get PHP and MySQL references, so you can quickly resolve questions about syntax and similar issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0782142796
• ISBN 13: 9780782142792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432