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Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

achmatim — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:24:28 +0000

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive introduction to two of the most prominent open source technologies on the planet: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server. It’s the third edition of W. Jason Gilmore’s very successful book that has sold in excess of 13,000 units over the previous two editions, and it’s been updated to cover the new features in PHP as that language makes the very significant jump from version 5 to version 6.

Essentially three books in one, readers not only profit from extensive introductions to the core features of each technology, but also learn how to effectively integrate the two in order to build robust data-driven applications. Packed with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers based on the author’s seven years of expertise working with these technologies, readers will repeatedly return to this book as both a valuable instructional tool and reference guide.

A beginning PHP book, not a beginning programming book. The subtitle, ‘From Novice to Professional’, can be a tad misleading for the novice coder. A beginning programming book covers a lot of material that this book assumes the reader already understands. Many software books include a ‘Who Is This Book For’ section that offers some guidance on the suitable reader knowledge level, not this one.

That said, I found this book to be very helpful. The sections on installing and configuring Apache, PHP and MySQL certainly saved me many hours of reading the online documentation and tweaking of settings while setting up my local test bed. That, in itself, made me a very happy camper. The author goes on to cover the various aspects from the basics of the PHP language and class libraries to topics like Authentication, Security, Session Handlers and eMail functionality that help anyone new to PHP setup some fairly sophisticated site capabilities.

The second edition has been supplemented with an added 200 pages, including a new section on PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository). This is a wealth of prewritten classes and packages that can be used to add even more sophisticated functionality to the novice’s web development toolbox. The author demonstrates several of the more prominent packages.

The second edition has greatly beefed up with additional coverage of MySQL 5, including chapters on stored procedures, triggers and the PHP mysqli extension (all missed in the first edition). Most of the examples offered are clean and general enough to be useful templates for the reader’s tailoring.

My suggestion for novices to PHP is read through chapter 9, then skip to the various sections that solve specific problems being faced or are of particular interest, including installing and configuring your local test bed.

Bottom line, the first edition was a good book for intermediate to veteran programmers looking for a quick tutorial on PHP (circa version 5.0); the second edition is even better. Novice programmers should ensure that they have a full understanding of the basics of programming (and OOP) before attempting it. I would now use this book to teach a class on PHP.

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PHP 5 For Dummies (Janet Valade)

achmatim — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:15:13 +0000

Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style

PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years
PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases
Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP’s features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks

From the Back Cover

Start programming PHP and make your Web site interactive

Discover arrays of variables, start writing scripts, and get object oriented

The script calls for an interactive Web site – where do you start? Right here, with a fast and friendly way to get the hang of PHP 5 programming! You’ll also discover all the other cool things you can do with PHP, like managing files, interacting with databases, using system commands, and more.

The Dummies Way

Explanations in plain English
“Get in, get out” information
Icons and other navigational aids
Tear-out cheat sheet
Top ten lists
A dash of humor and fun

Reader Reviews

Janet Valade: Yes, the author reads the reviews here. That’s me. The error in which a few quotes were replaced with underscores occurred during the publishing process, after I was finished with the book. I didn’t know about the errors until I saw the earlier review here. However, there is no way to fix it. If the book is reprinted or a second edition is released, I can fix the errors, but not until then. I wish I could. I apologize to any who were confused by this problem.

There are 8 quotes replaced with underscores on 4 lines in Chapter 3, 2 quotes replaced with underscores on 1 line in Chapter 4, and 20 quotes replaced with underscores on 8 lines in Chapter 5. I have a list of the errors and corrections on my web site at janet.valade.com/php5errors.html.

M.Strong: I only give this two stars because there are a few snippets of code that are worth absorbing. However this book has enough errors to make the subject matter confusing. I’ve used quite a few “Dummies” books as intros to a variety of subjects in my 20 years of programming. They have for the most part been quite helpful.

I always expect some errors from books dealing with technical material, but the errors here are of a nature so as to cause confusion, especially to those new to PHP.

My bottom line recommendation is not to use this book if you are new to programming or to PHP. You’ll spend more time than warranted separating the wheat from the chaff. There are much better intros to be had. Try Sam’s “PHP, MySQL and Apache” or Sitepoint’s “Object Oriented PHP Solutions”. Both are accurate, easy to understand, and have code samples that are easy to get to.

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PHP Architect Magazine – February 2007

achmatim — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:50:43 +0000

As I write this, I’m sitting at the 2007 Vancouver PHP Conference. In fact, I’m sitting in the “Lightning Talks” session. Going to conferences is one of my favourite parts of my job. Yes, that’s right—going to conferences is part of my job. I love being exposed to new ideas and new concepts, and attendees can get a fair dose of this at most respectable PHP conferences, at speaker-led
sessions. At this conference, for the first time, I had the opportunity to give my own talk—based on my article in Volume 5 Issue 12, PHP Phone Home.

It was well attended, and I think it went pretty well. People generally seem pretty excited about VOIP, especially when they hear that it’s simple to connect their Web apps to telephones. Talks aside, my absolute favourite part of conferences is meeting and
speaking with my friends, the speakers. I see them a few times a year, and it’s nice to be able to catch up, on “Real Life,” as well as their projects in the PHP world.

The meeting of PHP’s collective minds is an invaluable asset to PHP development. Many of PHP’s best features were coined over a beer (or 3), between developers speaking at a conference. PDO is an excellent example of this. Recently, there’s been some buzz in the PHP world about the value of conferences, and it’s a bit difficult for me to speak out, publically. Obviously, we, at php|architect have a bias toward the value of conferences—we do run multiple conferences every year, after all. If you can possibly believe that I’m able to separate our conferences with PHP conferences in general, though, hopefully my ultimate endorsement of conferences can carry some weight.

It’s very rare that PHP core developers (and non-core php.net community members) are able to meet and discuss things openly, without their inten tions being fogged with the plaintext of mailing lists. It’s so much more effecient to discuss things face-to-face, and thus so much easier to accomplish great things—or at least plant ideas that may some day sprout into great
things.Conferences serve as the great enablers for these in-person meetings, and in my opinion, are one of the cornerstones of the PHP ecosystem.

If you’ve never been to a conference, you really owe it to yourself to attend one, and bask in the wisdom that flows freely from great (and not so great) PHP minds—it will likely change your outlook on the community as a whole.

Happy reading, and I hope to see you soon. I’d love to shake your hand and welcome you to the party.

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PHP Architect Magazine – Januari 2007

achmatim — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:00:51 +0000

You may recognize this issue as the “January 2007” issue of php|architect, which it is, but we also refer to specific issues (mostly internally), by their volume and issue numbers. This issue, for example is “Volume 6, Issue 1.” Most magazines adopt this convention, and it helps us keep track of exactly which issue someone is referring to, numerically. Issue 1 of each Volume is the first issue of the year, or “January” (except in Volume 1, where we cheated—Volume 1, Issue 1 was the December 2002 issue).
Hopefully I haven’t lost you in a big cloud of irellevance. I always enjoy turning my magazine directory structure over from (for example) V5I12 to V6I1, just as I take pleasure in turning my wall calendar over from (again, for example) December 2006 to January 2007. This particular issue has special significance, though—not just because it leads a new volume. I didn’t believe Marco, when he mentioned—almost in passing—a few weeks ago, “January will be our 50th issue.” He then proceeded to demonstrate to Arbi and I, not without the use of both handfuls of fingers, that this is, in fact, number fifty. We were astonished.
In the nearly two years that I’ve been editing the magazine (and in the time before that when I was (blissfully) just a subscriber), we’ve managed to somehow convince exceptional authors to write some really incredible pieces. I thought, as the tradition of changing years and creating lists goes, I’d pick out a few of my favourites.

Now, this may sound like I’m sucking up to my boss, but I can assure you that I’m not. One of my favourite php|a articles was written by our publisher, Marco Tabini, entitled Doing it Japanese Style, in which he covers the art of poka-yoke and how
to apply it to handling user data (and coding in general). (See the February 2006 issue, or Volume 5 Issue 2.) The gist: design main elements of your code in such a way that anyone using it (including yourself), has no choice but to make proper
decisions: poka-yoke means a “fail-safe mechanism.”

Another of my favourites covered the issue of manipulating Open Office (OOo) documents with PHP. Written by Bard Farstad of eZ Systems in the October 2004 issue (well before I started editing), this article gave me all I needed to get working on handling OOo documents in a way that I only dreamed of with MS Word documents—the best part is that I didn’t have to meddle with COM.

I think my all-time favourite article was a recent one. Last summer, we were approached by Andi Gutmans (of Zend fame) about the possibility of publishing an aritcle on the speed differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5. The piece was published in the September 2006 issue, and is in my top picks because Andi and Dmitry Stogov managed to put together not only a solid argument for PHP 5, but backed it up with relevant data, and knowledge of engine internals that very few people have knowledge of.
I can think of no way more appropriate to ring in the new volume than to, for the second year, publish Derick Rethans’ PHP Look Back, for 2006. Enjoy it in this issue.

To our wonderful authors: thank you for the ride, and keep the excellent content coming! To them, and to everyone else: happy Volume 6!

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Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

achmatim — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:30:22 +0000

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology?available in the most recent versions of modern browsers?to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.

Explains how you can create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up to speed quickly with HTML5 What you?ll learn How the HTML5 specification has evolved How to develop cutting-edge web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, Geolocation, Web Storage, Canvas, and Audio and Video. Which features are available in browsers today Who is this book for?

This book is for web designers and developers who want to use the latest cutting-edge technology available in current browsers; developers who want to create dynamic, HTML5 web applications; and developers who want to know which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers.

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Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions: Simple Solutions to Practical PHP Problems

achmatim — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:24:30 +0000

100 power solutions to real-world problems

This practical guide gives you 100 ready-to-run PHP functions for solving most of the main problems you encounter when building a dynamic website with PHP. Every plug-in in the book offers a complete and working solution for a result you can achieve right away, using ready-made code you simply drop into your own program. And there’s little or no learning curve, because each one is self-contained and thoroughly documented.

Plug-in PHP is packed with programming tips and suggestions for further adapting the functions to your own needs, and even breaks down all the variables, arrays and functions used by each into at-a-glance tables, accompanied by a screen grab of every function in action. This makes the book extremely easy to use, even for complete beginners to PHP programming.

A plug-in for every need
No matter what cookbook-style solutions you’re looking for, you’ll find the perfect functions in this book, and you can have them up and running in just a couple of minutes. For example, here’s the complete list of plug-ins which, while comprehensive, simply doesn’t do justice to the depth and breadth of help, information, and practical code provided in this book:
Wrap Text; Caps Control; Friendly Text; Strip Whitespace; Word Selector; Count Tail; Text Truncate; Spell Check; Remove Accents; Shorten Text; Upload File; Resize Image; Make Thumbnail; Image Alter; Image Crop; Image Enlarge; Image Display; Image Convert; GIF Text; Image Watermark; Relative to Absolute URL; Get Links from URL; Check Links; Directory List; Query Highlight; Rolling Copyright; Embed YouTube Video; Create List; Hit Counter; Referer Log; Evaluate Expression; Validate Credit Card; Create Captcha; Check Captcha; Validate Text; Validate E-mail; Spam Catch; Send E-mail; BB Code; Pound Code; Check Links; Get Title from URL; Auto Back Links; Create Short URL; Use Short URL; Simple Web Proxy; Page Updated?; HTML to RSS; RSS to HTML; HTML to Mobile; Users Online; Post to Guestbook; Get Guestbook; Post to Chat; View Chat; Send Tweet; Send Direct Tweet; Get Tweets; Replace Smileys; Replace SMS Talk; Add User to DB; Get User from DB; Verify User in DB; Sanitize String; Create Session; Open Session; Close Session; Secure Session; Manage Cookie; Block User by Cookie; Create Google Chart; Curl Get Contents; Fetch Wiki Page; Fetch Flickr Stream; Get Yahoo! Answers; Search Yahoo!; Get Yahoo! Stock News; Get Yahoo! News; Search Google Books; Convert Currency; Ajax Request; Post Ajax Request; Get Ajax Request; Protect E-mail; Toggle Text; Status Message; Slide Show; Input Prompt; Words from Root; Predict Word; Get Country by IP; Bypass Captcha; Get Book from ISBN; Get Amazon Sales Rank; Pattern Match Word; Suggest Spelling; Google Translate; Corner GIF; Rounded Table; Display Bing Map

Real world solutions
Plug-in PHP has everything you need for processing text; image uploading and manipulation; content management; forms and user input; integrating your website with others; creating chat and messaging services; using MySQL; managing sessions and cookies; dealing with APIs; RSS; and XML; integrating with JavaScript and Ajax; accessing geo-location; spell checking and language translation; and a great deal more.

Written by PHP expert with many years of experience developing websites in PHP and writing about PHP development, this invaluable resource draws on the author’s personal toolkit of solutions built up over the years. This means they are fast, tried-and-tested functions that have been proven to work in the real world, and they will work for you too.

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achmatim — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:47:00 +0000

You own your own business. You have also created a website for your business that details the products or services that you offer, but it doesn’t allow potential customers to purchase anything online. Don’t risk losing business-learn to create a dynamic online environment using only three programs. PHP, MySQL and Apache are three popular open-source tools that can work together to help you create a dynamic website, such as an online shopping experience. Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One is a complete reference manual for all three development tools.

You will learn how to install, configure and set up the PHP scripting language, use the MySQL database system, and work with the Apache Web server. Then you’ll take it a step further and discover how they work together to create a dynamic website. Use the book and the included CD to create a simple website, as well as a mailing list, online address book, shopping cart and storefront. Updated to reflect the most recent developments in PHP and MySQL, including the final stable release of MySQL 5.0, you will open your website to limitless possibilities with Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One.

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achmatim — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:03:49 +0000

Get past all the hype about PHP and dig into the real power of this language. This book explores the most useful features of PHP and how they can speed up the web development process, and explains why the most commonly used PHP elements are often misused or misapplied. You’ll learn which parts add strength to object-oriented programming, and how to use certain features to integrate your application with databases.

Written by a longtime member of the PHP community, PHP: The Good Parts is ideal for new PHP programmers, as well as web developers switching from other languages.

Become familiar with PHP’s basic syntax, variables, and datatypes Learn how to integrate the language with web pages Understand how to use strings, arrays, and PHP’s built-in functions Discover the advantages of using PHP as an object-oriented language Explore how PHP interacts with databases, such as SQLite and MySQL Learn input- and output-handling best practices to prevent security breaches

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achmatim — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:57:52 +0000

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is the most popular programming language in the world, with millions of lines of code used in businesses and applications of all types and sizes. The new release of Visual Basic 2010 is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system and the .NET programming environment. Renowned VB authority Rod Stephens provides a comprehensive guide to Visual Basic programming, including the latest enhancements to the VB language and programming environment with Visual Studio 2010 The tutorial is packed with detailed and practical code examples that show readers how to master all of the features of VB.

Visual Basic authority Rod Stephens presents a must-have resource on Visual Basic, the most popular programming language in the word
Fully covers the newest features of Visual Basic 2010, such as array literals and initializers, collection initializers, implicit line continuation, Lambda expressions, and more
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With this essential resource, you’ll be able to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events.

Packed with helpful examples, this reference progresses through a range of topics that gradually increase in their complexity. You’ll quickly start building applications while you learn how to use both Expression Blend and Visual Studio to build UIs. In addition, the book addresses the needs of programmer who write the code behind the UI and shows you how operations can be performed using both XAML and C#.

Even if you only have a minimal amount of experience, by the end of the book, you will be able to build dynamic and responsive user interfaces with WPF.

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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

achmatim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:30:42 +0000

With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more.

To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it—The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

Takes you through your development environment set up
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Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3—Your Creative Partner
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Chapter 3: Getting the Work Environment Ready
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Chapter 8: Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets
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