"Professional PHP4 Programming"

eBook Name: Professional PHP4 Programming
eBook Type: PHP

PHP, MySQL, Perl, CGI Script

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

Download Description

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.