Professional PHP4 Programming 0th Edition

by Deepak Thomas (Author), Wankyu Choi (Author), John Coggeshall (Author),

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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

From the Publisher

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 Author

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.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 0 edition (January 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 974 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1861006918
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1861006912
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.48 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2 x 5.75 x 9 inches

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Moi-même

I haven't been paid to write this review!

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2002

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First of all, I should say that I bought this book mainly because of all the favourable reviews, and consistently good reviews seem to be a good indicator of a book's quality. Not so with this one, unfortunately.
There's no doubt that you'll get a truck load of information: the book can easily be used as a weapon (let it slip from your hands onto somebody's foot and they're bound to end up in hospital). The problem is that the information is not presented in a clear, consistent manner, nor is it very well organized.
Each one of the 26 chapters is written by a different author, and the authors obviously didn't spend a whole lot of time planning how the chapters would all tie in with each other. Some chapters seem to have been written by people who are less than fully proficient in English, and yet others are just badly written.
This may sound like nitpicking, but when you're trying to grasp fairly complex concepts and "take your programming skills to the next level", believe me, it makes a difference -- you need to be able to follow the author's thread. You want clear, well illustrated explanations, not page after page of geekspeak glossing over stuff that you're supposed to understand but don't.
And though I'm certainly no PHP genious, I do have a fairly good understanding of the basics of PHP, which has enabled me to developed a few useful applications all by myself. In other words, I'm not a complete idiot who just happened to pick a book that's too advanced for me.
If you're a geek and like plain geekspeak without many examples to waste your time, then by all means this book is an excellent investment.

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ISPgeek

Kinda hard to read but a good resource when you need it for older PHP

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2010

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It has served it's intended purpose. Obviously dated now but I had specific needs and I'm happy with the purchase.

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P. J.

Want to learn php from the best?

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2002

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Simply put this book rocks! Lots of great examples, with authors that really understand how to code, and to work around the trouble spots.
Forget ASP, and JSP. Do it with php! :)

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Rohan Parkes

OK, but sloppy

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2003

Having previously read Wrox's Professional ASP Programming, I tried this book, hoping for something of equal merit.
This volume is has some decent material, but is marred by a tendecy to sloppiness.
Firstly, as other reviewers have noted, there are too many authors (count 'em - 16!), which is unnecessary, and leads to inconsistencies in presentation. The book could quite easily have been authored by a single writer. There are only a few chapters that required specialist knowledge.
For example, the early chapters are quite good at advising the reader on PHP settings. Since there's no option explicit in PHP,the author correctly advises the reader to increase their error setting to report unused variables. Later, however, much of the code uses uninitialised variables. This is particularly the case in the chapter on form handling, the approach to which is too crude, and uses form variables directly in code, whereas a better approach would be to capture them and process them using isset(). The isset() function isn't even covered in this chapter,but is used correctly in other chapters.
Secondly, while the converstational tone of Wrox books is often appealing, it can also be a problem at times. The presentation is not always comprehensive enough, and Wrox authors have a tendency to give overly clever examples.
Strangely, there's no reference section. I found some of the explanations sloppy and confusing, especially the section of session variables. (I still can't get the WAP application to work properly.)
Thirdly, the chapter on OO design leaves the reader stranded. After a decent theoretical discussion, the writer informs the reader that there will be no code examples, as the reader now knows enough theory to work an example out for themselves! If I've paid for the book, I don't really want to have it set homework for me.
Fourthly, there are an annoying number of errors in the code. Many of these are corrected in the online errata, but there are quite a few that aren't at present. Furthermore, some of them are not typos, but seem to be the result of misconceptions on the part of the writer. This tends to reinforce the impression that some of the authors are relatively inexperienced.
Lastly, there are a large number of errors in the downloadable code. I suppose supplied code should be seen as a bonus, but it's poor quality control, and greatly adds to the user's annoyance.

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Worth Every Cent...

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2002

After reading many reviews on PHP books, I decided to give this book a try. I have read/browsed through quite a few of the WROX publications and have been fairly pleased with their books. After receiving this book in the mail and spending an hour reading through the first few chapters, I was thoroughly impressed by this book. I am an intermediate web developer and found this book to be very easy to follow and actually sit down and use. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody serious about learning one of the fastest growing web development languages in the field today. Plus...all of the software that you use is Open Source...meaning it's free to the public to use. Now you can't beat that. I just can't say enough about how great this book has been for learning PHP. This book, coupled with the PHP manual will give you a solid basis for PHP programming. You will be creating Dynamic websites in no time at all. I hope that WROX will put out an Advanced PHP progamming book in the near future. So, in closing...if you are serious about learning PHP, give this book a try, I promise you won't be disappointed.

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Beth

Not impressed: they don't know who their audience is

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2003

In reading this book, it's clear to me that the authors don't have a clear focus on who their audience is supposed to be and what they are trying to accomplish.
They sprinkle the book with trivial examples that don't give any "meat", concentrate on the details of what low-level functions are available, and gloss over completely how to make the best use of the features.
This book contains a lot of information, but it is not organized to get an experienced developer up to speed on a new language, nor is it geared towards a beginning programmer who might need basic concepts explained.
I don't know who would find this book at the "right level", but I wish I hadn't spent my money on it. I've gotten more out of the website than I got out of this book.

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