File Size: 4029 KB
Print Length: 383 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0672329654
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Publisher: Sams Publishing; 1 edition (July 2, 2008)
Publication Date: July 2, 2008
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672329654
ISBN-13: 978-0672329654
ASIN: B001FWIJGY
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Sam's Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript, and PHP by Phil Ballard and Michael Moncur covers a broad range of topics, from HTML (but not HTML5) across the board to a server side library (called XOAD) and, of course, AJAX (intensive), Javascript (basic to intermediate) and PHP (albeit a cursory overview of PHP, delving into OOP for PHP by the third chapter dedicated to the PHP topic).(This book is best read with a foundation in HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, and preferably at least a little bit of knowledge of PHP as the PHP section is not covered at the same depth as is dedicated to JavaScript.)With that said, there were at least two features of the book that made it absolutely indispensable for my library. For one, the book covers use of 's REST API for capturing product info and implementing an Associate's ID for making passive income off of through book/product referrals from your site (p. 275). This discovery was tremendous for me as I had never encountered a developer's method for working with the Associate's program. And what better way to refine your Web sites than by making them compatible with a means for passive income?For another, the book shows you how to take a url for an RSS field, collect the XML, and list the titles and descriptions of the news items in your site by incorporating user entered RSS url fields (pp. 262, 265). Although the user needed to enter the RSS url fields, this book at least gives direction for implementing RSS feeds into a site--something I've been excited about learning but never encountered in any of the countless books I've read.Other great projects that this book offers include (1) building a script to grab the "keywords" metatag from the user entered url (p.
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