Advanced PHP for Web Professionals [Paperback]

Christopher Cosentino (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130085391 | ISBN-13: 978-0130085399 | Publication Date: November 8, 2002

Take your PHP programming skills to the next level, with this hands-on, example-rich tutorial! In Advanced PHP for Web Professionals, best-selling PHP author Christopher Cosentino brings together dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Learn how to manage sessions more effectively, create better forms, develop custom error handlers, build database-independent Web applications with PEAR::DB, parse XML files, authenticate users via database query, build cross-platform client apps with PHP-GTK, and much more!

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From the Back Cover

• Build complex, PHP-driven Web sites—fast!
• Discover powerful new PHP techniques, hands on!
• Learn all-new techniques based on PHP-GTK and PEAR::DB
• Master XML parsing, user authentication, forms processing, data mining, and much more

Take your PHP programming skills to the next level!

In this concise, hands-on tutorial, PHP expert Christopher Cosentino delivers dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Through professional-quality examples drawn from his six years as a PHP developer, Cosentino walks you through building friendlier, more usable sites; improving user authentication; generating dynamic graphics; parsing XML documents; building database-independent Web applications; and much more!

Take PHP to the limit... and beyond!

• Manage sessions more effectively
• Interact with multiple databases via PEAR::DB
• Improve your form processing scripts
• Parse large files and perform data mining
• Authenticate users by IP address, database query, or HTTP authentication
• Create custom error handlers
• Dump database contents into XML files
• Use PHP-GTK to build client-side cross-platform GUI applications
• And more...

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER COSENTINO is currently a technical writer for Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been a freelance Web developer since 1996, specializing in the use of PHP to build e-commerce applications. He is author of Essential PHP for Web Professionals (Prentice Hall PTR).

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (November 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130085391
• ISBN-13: 978-0130085399
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,625,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't know about advanced, March 9, 2006

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D. McNerney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced PHP for Web Professionals (Paperback)

I suppose it depends on your point of view. I picked PHP a couple of months ago (built on top of long experience in other languages) - and I wanted something with a bit of bite in it, and while there were somethings I found interesting, I don't know whether advanced is a really applicable.

If you're moving from, say, HTML development into PHP, I would actually recommend this. It covers a nice range of topics - certainly pointing you in the right direction for PHP development.

If you want a good solid reference for the best way to do particular 'advanced' applications - maybe not.

My copy was printed with the cover on the wrong side - so having to read it backwards made it tricky. But I'm left-handed, so I'm used to it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not so advanced, June 20, 2006

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Abdoulmoumine Nourredine - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced PHP for Web Professionals (Paperback)

I found few interesting things in the book, general topics that is necessary for intermediate/new to php. I do not particularly agree with the word "advanced" however I do think this book should be one of the first to visit by web professionnal new in php.

15 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Selection of Best Howtos, February 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced PHP for Web Professionals (Paperback)

You need this book just after understanding the basic concept of PHP, and start to apply it to a real website. How to connect to database(s); how to put in dynamic graphics; how to manage sessions like in e-commerce sites. Windows and Linux are included in discussion.
A real treasure for me.