Professional PHP Programming 1st Edition

by Jesus M. Castagnetto (Author), Harish Rawat (Author), Deepak T. Veliath (Author)

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This book covers middle-tier programming with PHP.
PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. It is an open source technology, rapidly gaining popularity as a scripting language for people running dynamic websites. One of its major attractions over Perl, JavaScript and other scripting languages is that PHP has a built-in database integration layer and seamless IP connectivity, with LDAP and TCP as well as the IMAP mail interface. Features;
Real world, practical experience and techniques
From installation and configuration of the PHP engine to advanced dynamic application design
Definitive coverage of core PHP language and database addressing:
MySQL is covered in depth.
Practical e-commerce and business scripting including database application development, together with PHP and XML applications.
LDAP connectivity addressed.

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This book is for:
Developers that want to add a professional edge to their web applications. Programmers who are either new to the web paradigm of development or experienced CGI programmers who are looking for the speed and convenience of a new technology.
A working knowledge of HTML is assumed.

About the Author

Wrox has assembled a team of PHP experts to share their experience with you:

Chris Scollo, Jesus Castagnetto and Sascha Schumann are site architects and builders who have employed PHP to run powerful, state-of-the-art web locations. Chris and Jesus have also written widely on PHP online.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st edition (December 15, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 909 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1861002963
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1861002969
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 2 x 9.5 inches

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James A. Russell

Good insight, many holes

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2001

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I bought this book to supplement a graduate class in which we were researching a solution for an online automobile insurance application. We compared C++, PERL, ASP, JSP, and PHP.
If you have programmed with another language, I would recommend this book. The syntax of loops, ifs, and case statements was covered. The object-oriented model of PHP was also expained. The book covered the two subjects I was primarily concerned with: databases and LDAP. These subjects are treated with vague explanations and some examples. I thought the examples were a bit skimpy and hard to follow. Some people have recommended using the online documentation. I would recommend buying this book to get a good foundation of PHP. Then, buy the PHP developer's cookbook to find solutions to problems you encounter. The online documentation is good as a reference manual. This book is good for some reference, but mostly to read from beginning to end in order to uncover the power of PHP. Once you understand the principles behind PHP, you can scour the web and the "Cookbook" for specific code for the solution you have devised within the limitations of PHP.

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Brian Donnelly

Such a great language - so little documentation

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2000

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Like the other reviewers I recommend that you know a mainstream programming language before taking on PHP, this is not a cold start language. This is a very helpful book that addresses a lot of issues that come up when programming in PHP and it provides examples where the manual leaves you hanging. The section on security is very helpfull as well. This book does lend itself to being more of a reference than an instruction manual but documentation on PHP is hard to come by so in my opinion anything right now is a help. I would hope this will change but untill then I recommend this as a companion. The experienced PHP progammer may scoff at it but it has pulled me out of several snags that I have run into.

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Joan Fusté

IS the BOOK

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2001

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I'have the book. A lot of more books from Wrox are in my hands. This is a very good on PHP. Examples, bits of code explained step by step, huge amount of info, lack of some other (in programming NONE was perfect and complete). Good point to start serious programming with DB (MySQL or other ones). 4 stars only because God is not a programming writer, not Schumann and the others in this are, and I cannot put a 4 and half stars....
If you dont know HTML, learn first. Then, read this book. I repeat, READ IT! Like a novel, not as reference one. Every page contains valuable information, only have your eyes wide open to catch it! Put it beside your bed or your WC!
Results: a large Internet project, an ecommerce site, a tutorials online site, a.... well, you know what I mean. With this book, I'm mastering PHP with no fears!
BUY IT NOW!

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Mladen Gogala

Excellent, clearly written

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2001

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Excellent and clearly written book! I read it and I was able to concoct a decent looking web application using Oracle in a week! This book was written with PHP3 in mind and should be updated with the tricks like start_session, session_register, foreach and alike, but altogether, it's an excellent introductory text, especially if you have a C++ experience. Authors did a great job and I can only recommend the book.

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Abin Awale

Good book for PHP learners

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2009

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Its a good book. I did shopping cart example from this book, added some css stuff and database and presented to my professor

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Robert Nagle, Editor of Personville Press

excellent learning examples, interesting apps.

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2000

Boy, my reviews of Wrox books probably seem a little boring, since there is so little fault to find with them. The Wrox programming books are really the best books on the market, and it's interesting that the Oreilly books haven't yet published a decent book on php or xml stuff. I liked the way this PHP book explained the various setup options and the amount of space discussing mysql (which is a major reason why people are using php anyway).
What distinguishes this book from the rest are the examples. The tutorial part of the book works with two simple projects, an online job app and an address book, which were easy enough to follow. Actually, I found this book to be a useful intro to cgi script writing in addition to php.
Also interesting were 4 case studies about ways to use php. Example: did you know that with the qt libraries, php can manipulate images (such as zooming, and overwriting images with text)? That is amazing! A chapter on phorum explains how a discussion software uses php, and another one explains the use of a shopping cart (I tend to agree with the other reader who thinks that this is not necessarily the best example to use). The book also describes other things like using php for file management and storage, email configuration, and network connections. Some other topics covered in depth include: xml, security and database integration.
The appendix has many things. First, obviously, it has an alphabetical list of all the php functions. It also has a helpful appendix on http headers and another on browser support of html tags. This last thing is only somewhat handy to have, because web developers reading this book are past the point of needing browser support info re legacy html tags. Instead developers should be worrying about xml and xslt. Some technical books increase the size of their book by stuffing a lot of code throughout it. Wrox seems to like to increase the size by including large and somewhat irrelevant appendices.
This book made me realize many new potential ways in which php could be used. That is the most valuable thing about the book. I have not tried very much of the code, so I can't comment on whether it all works. But (to summarize) it will really broaden your horizons of what php is capable of.
The only reason I've given it 4 stars is that I haven't read the whole thing yet.

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Ian Rogers

Excellent for beginners, frustrating for advanced

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2000

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I'm always wary of books that have to congratulate the authors by having their photograph on the cover - and this one has five!
This book is an excellent beginner's tutorial with concise and clear examples throughout. But as this is roughly the 15th language I've learn't the lack of depth became very frustrating quite quickly. This carries over to the other topics they touch on: their superficial brushing off of concerns about cookies is *very* annoying. The authors really need to read "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing" to find out why cookies really are bad (an excellent book, although the author's picture on the cover, with his dog, does warn you of the occasionally self-absorbed content).
"Professional PHP" does have a reference section where the functions are grouped by category, again excellent for beginners, but there's no full, alphabetical, function and variable index in the back! If I know the function I want to use, but need to remind myself of the argument ordering etc. it's extremely labourious and frustrating to thumb through the pages of reference looking for the right section. I notice that O'Reilly now have a pocket PHP reference which may solve this problem.
Personally I'm still looking forward to the O'Reilly "complete reference" treatment whenever they get around to it.

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MIDIManNI

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2015

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