PHP: 25 book reviews

This book focuses on PHP for large-scale, business-critical systems. It demonstrates that PHP is ready for enterprise web applications by showing the how to develop PHP-based applications for maximum performance, stability, and extensibility.

ISBN: 0672325616

This book offers an introduction to the scripting language PHP and the MySQL database server. It describes the aspects of both technologies and provides insight into how they are used to create dynamic data-driven web applications.

ISBN: 1893115518

This book focuses on PHP 5 and MySQL. It covers the design and build process, and provides examples that enable to build e-commerce web sites. It covers site building in three phases. Phase one results in a web site, with an interface and searchable product catalogue. Phase two explains adding facilities to increase sales through cross-selling, upselling, and enhancing customer service. Phase three seeks to reduce costs through automated order processing and integrating with other systems via XML web services.

ISBN: 1590593928

This book teaches how to integrate and implement MySQL and PHP by following examples and working sample projects. It covers related technologies needed to build a commercial web site, such as SSL, shopping carts, and payment systems. It includes coverage of how to work with XML in developing a PHP and MySQL site, and how to draw on the resources of the PEAR repository of code and extensions.

ISBN: 067232525X

This book introduces the basic concepts of PHP as a programming language. It describes how each PHP function works, such as what arguments are expected and what value is returned. It address common programming problems and offer advice on using PHP in a web site. Updated for PHP 5, it includes chapters on transforming strings and implementing design patterns.

ISBN: 0130463469

This book teaches the principles of programming through simple game creation. It helps acquire the skills needed for programming applications. It describes how these skills can be put to use in real world scenarios.

ISBN: 1931841322

This book explains fundamentals of creating complex web applications using both open sources and proprietary tools in this book/CD-ROM package for beginning and intermediate designers. Practical examples in PHP and ASP are used to teach basic concepts of creating and testing database code. The CD-ROM contains code for examples and projects, plus colour images.

ISBN: 1584502649

This book guides to both MySQL - the database program - and PHP - the scripting language. Using step-by-step instructions, scripts, and tips, it discusses PHP and MySQL separately before going on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. A companion Web site includes source code and demonstrations of techniques used in the volume.

ISBN: 0321186486

This book outlines the basic syntax and structure of PHP, providing a tutorial for learning the basics of developing web applications with PHP. It includes examples of PHP in action and a reference for the functions provided by PHP.

ISBN: 0596004028

This book is a collection of 250 problems, solutions, and practical examples for PHP programmers. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution. The recipes range from simple tasks, such as sending a database query and fetching URLs, to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks, such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts.

ISBN: 1565926811