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Instead of starting at "Hello World," Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you're familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly wished for PHP scripts-you'll work your way through smart configuration options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex database-backed scripts.

Wicked Cool PHP contains a wide variety of scripts to process credit cards, check the validity of email addresses, template HTML, and serve dynamic images and text. The 76 easily implemented scripts will also teach you how to:

Send and receive email notifications
Track your visitors' behavior with cookies and sessions
Override PHP's default settings
Manipulate dates, images, and text on the fly
Harness SOAP and other web services
Create an online poll, ecard delivery system, and blog
But it's not all fun and games: Security is a big concern when programming any web application. So you'll learn how to encrypt your confidential data, safeguard your passwords, and prevent common cross-site-scripting attacks. And you'll learn how to customize all of the scripts to fit your own needs.

Dynamic Web content doesn't have to be difficult. Learn the secrets of the craft from two experienced PHP developers with Wicked Cool PHP.

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February 19, 2008
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William Steinmetz is the author of LAN Party: Hosting the Ultimate Frag Fest (Wiley) and co-author of Paint Shop Pro for Dummies (IDG). He is the webmaster and editor of StarCityGames.com, where traffic has quadrupled as a result of the changes he designed and implemented, all using PHP.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 1st edition (February 19, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593271735
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593271732
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Casse C.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2010

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Great tips and easily-forgotten tricks. Easy to read and *very* easy-to-understand samples.

That said, I do have 6+ years PHP under my belt, as a beginner I may have gotten hung up on some of the summarized bits. As a pocket "oh my, how did I forget how to do that" reference, this is one stellar little book. It doesn't cover *everything* you'd ever need, but sure does help with some common problems. I might even need to buy another copy for my coworker (who keeps stealing it from me, thank you!!)

Overall, I'm happy to have it in my reference collection.

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Rolf Ernst

Excellent cookbook for both new and expereinced coders

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2009

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I have coded a good deal in PHP and read a lot of literature on the language along the way. On one's way of coding this or that web site most programmers run across the same challenges, often simple problems but without an elegant solution or at least not an obvious and handy one. The book appears to be written by experienced coders that have collected their slickest solutions to these problems and structured them into an easy to read format. As an example: How do I convert plain-text with line breaks into HTML markup? Sounds easy enough until one looks at the variety of pitfalls that this problem has. The authors offer an extremely elegant approach to this (function), which, while admittedly not of their own making, appears to me as unique. One cannot appreciate these little gems without paying attention to the detail.

The book covers quite a bit of ground and is not targeting an audience of complete newcomers to the language but those that have coded before and and are now wondering 'whether there wasn't a better way of doing things'.

The books is well written and reads easily. It is entirely pragmatic, the authors are not peddling programming ideology but present solutions to everyday problems. Most solutions point out their limitations and caveats and potential ways of improving upon them after clarifying the principles.

I have read this book rather rapidly, probably due to its informal style, almost entertaining. I only realized in hindsight my desire to go back and change this or that portion of code I have written in the past to improve upon simplicity, readability and reliability. Now having digested the material I am quite sure I will reference it again when running across the outlined areas again.

It's a definite thumbs up for a no-nonsense approach to everyday PHP programming challenges.

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Pule Nong

Wicked Cool PHP - Great Book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2009

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This book offered me examples i badly needed to complete my online class assignment project.

The examples are easy and well explained, so buying this book will not cause you to have any remorse for buying stuff that confuses you. This is the book where you get all the explanations. Even when the script is self explanatory the author takes no chances.. he explains it! One thing to note is that this book is for people who already have some knowledge about PHP.

Highly recommend it.
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Kallah

Was a gift - he loved it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2013

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I don't know the first thing about coding, but my buddy was mentioning taking on a new project, and I took some mental notes on what he was trying to learn. I picked this up as a gift and he mentioned a few weeks later that he loved it, and that he learned a few new things despite being fairly solid on this type of stuff.

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Willie Pritchett

PHP Questions . . . Solved

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2009

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I was looking for a PHP script online one day and stumbled across this book in my search. After reading the reviews, I decided to give the book a shot. As a person who owns over 15 PHP books, I was wondering whether I would find something magical in this book compared to the others. I was VERY surprised!

This book is absolutely AWESOME!!! The books chapters are very well organized and then broken down into important topics of interest under that. It bills itself as "real world scripts that solve difficult problems". This book succeeds in this. The book also includes 3 full programs.

I have found use for 45 of the 73 listed scripts. If you are a PHP developer, this book is a MUST for your arsenal.

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Gilbert Baca

Good reference book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 6, 2010

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This is an excellent reference book with lots of good chunks of PHP code to incorporate quickly and easily into new or existing code. I'd recommend it as a good reference book with coe you can immediately deploy. Haven't had a chance to look through entire book but realize that it is going to be something I reference repeatedly.

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G. D. Kendall

Excellent, comprehensive, practical

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 28, 2012

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I have read (or, more usually, part-read!) a few books on PHP and this one is one of the easiest to work with. Some other books I own have been criticised for containing code errors in the examples they provide, whereas the code in this book often seems to achieve the same end results with code that is both shorter and easier to comprehend. With a very small amount of PHP practice under my belt I have found myself smiling as I flip to a new page and see yet another topic I was hoping would be covered. It's an excellent book for anyone intending to do some real world PHP coding and has lots of casually delivered, but invaluable, tips and insights. Recommended.

sa.vuec

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 20, 2014

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good product. good price.

A. J. Murphy

Fantastic 2nd PHP book for anyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 28, 2009

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as the previous reviewer said this is not a first php book. However as a second php book it is really good. The book is packed full of useful examples of code and the writer has a nice easy writing style - not too much detail, but enough to get every example to work and understood to a good level.
Great Job.

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drom99

Many useful plug-ins

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 28, 2011

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Contains many useful plug-ins that can easily be integrated to any webpage. The explanations are decent and the examples show how each plugin works ... which helps in understanding the code.

Helmut Schneider-Siebert

Hinoch einige Hinweise

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 4, 2018

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Obwohl für ein älteres PHP konzipiert, enthält dieses Buch doch noch den einen oder andren nützlichen Hinweis.

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