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Description of Professional PHP 4

The Publisher writes:

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

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 Authors:

Deepak Thomas; Harish Rawat; Wankyu Choi; Jon Parise; James Moore; Luis Argerich; Christopher Scollo; Devon O' Dell; Ken Egervari; John Coggeshall; Martin Geisler; Chris Hubbard; Andrew Hill; Zak Greant; Tarique Sani; Chris Ullman

Deepak Thomas is a Member of Technical Staff with Oracle corp. in Redwood Shores, CA. Co-author of Professional PHP; he has also contributed to other Wrox titles on Linux and Java both as an author and a reviewer. His interests include Linux, J2EE technologies and website deployment issues.

Jon Parise is a long-time contributor to the PHP, PEAR, and Horde projects. He holds a bachelors degree in Information Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is pursuing his Masters in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently works as an independent consultant.

Harish Rawat is a software developer at Oracle corporation. He has over nine years of experience in Systems programming. His technical areas of interest include XML,Java and Network Protocols.Co-author of Professional PHP; he has also contributed to other Wrox titles on Linux and Java both as an author and a reviewer.

James Moore is currently living in Bristol having taken a year out in between completing his A-levels at Richard Huish College, Taunton and continuing his studies at University. He is spending this year both working and travelling.
Over the past two years James has taken an active role within the PHP Community as a member of the PHP Quality Assurance team and as the PHP-GTK Manual Editor. He has also contributed the Windows API extension to PHP's code base.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: PHP Roadmap
Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 3: PHP Fundamentals
Chapter 4: Structures
Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 6: Debugging
Chapter 7: Input and Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Sessions and Cookies
Chapter 9: File Handling
Chapter 10: Coding FTP Clients
Chapter 11: Email and News-1
Chapter 12: Email and News-2
Chapter 13: Networking and TCP/IP
Chapter 14: LDAP
Chapter 15: Introduction to multi-tier development
Chapter 16: PHP Case Study 1: WAP Multi-tier Case Study
Chapter 17: PHP and MySQL
Chapter 18: PHP and PostgreSQL
Chapter 19: PHP and ODBC
Chapter 21: PHP GTK
Chapter 22: PHP XML
Chapter 23: Internationalization
Chapter 24: PHP Security
Chapter 25: Optimization
Chapter 26: PHP Extensions Libraries
Chapter 27: PHP Case Study 2: User Privilege System

Appendices (Online at p2p.wrox.com):
Appendix A: PHP Extension Functions
Appendix B: Basic and Standard Extension Functions
Appendix C: Database Functions
Appendix D: Configuration Directives

Title Information

ISBN:

9781861006912

Pages:

910 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

154991

Publisher:

Wrox Press

Published:

30/12/2001

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