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PHP: The Complete Reference

Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP--Covers PHP 5.2Build dynamic, cross-browser Web applications with PHP--the server-side programming language that's taken the Internet by storm. Through detailed explanations and downloadable code examples, this comprehensive guide shows you, step-by-step, how to configure PHP, create PHP-enabled Web pages, and put every advanced development tool to work.PHP: The Complete Reference explains how to personalize the PHP work space, define operators and variables, manipulate strings and arrays, deploy HTML forms and buttons, and process user input. You'll learn how to access database information, track client-side preferences using cookies, execute FTP and e-mail transactions, and publish your applications to the Web. You'll also get in-depth coverage of PHP's next-generation Web 2.0 design features, including AJAX, XML, and RSS.Install PHP and set up a customized development environmentWork with variables, operators, loops, strings, arrays, and functionsIntegrate HTML controls, text fields, forms, radio buttons, and checkboxesAccept and validate user-entered data from Web pagesSimplify programming using PHP's object-oriented tools Build blogs, guest books, and feedback pages with server-side file storageWrite MySQL scripts that retrieve, modify, and update database informationSet cookies, perform FTP transactions, and send e-mails from PHP sessionsBuild AJAX-enabled Web pagesDraw graphics on the serverCreate XML components and add RSS feeds

Paperback: 590 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (December 31, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0071508546

ISBN-13: 978-0071508544

Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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This book is okay as a beginning reference. The title may give the impression that it's a book you'll want to keep on your shelf and return to frequently for years to come. That probably won't be the case for most readers who go on to write a lot of PHP, so a better title might have been "Getting Started with PHP", or something like that. The banner on the back of the book, which says "Your One-Stop Guide to Web Development with PHP", is a lot more predictive of the book's contents.It contains a lot of fluff that fills way more pages than are justified for the amount of information given, such as examples built-up in stages, leading to a lot of needlessly redundant example code. This might make sense for complex examples, but the examples in this book are all very simple, so the extra use of paper is wasteful.Personally, I don't like the author's tendency to follow his own explanations with expressions like "Not bad!", "Nice!", and "Pretty good!". I appreciate when authors use a conversational tone to some extent (Scott Meyers is the best at this, I think), but doing this constantly throughout the book goes too far for my taste. Others might enjoy this style of writing though.I would say this book seems to be targeted toward readers who are absolutely new to programming. If you're coming from any kind of programming background at all, or like to be challenged, then you might not be very satisfied with this book. One good thing is that it's so simple and the examples take up so much space, you can read the whole thing in just a few hours.I've also noticed quite a few typos, even in the example code (e.g. "close" where they meant "clone"), but I don't see an erratum posted on the McGraw-Hill website yet.

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