Programming Php, 2E - Softcover

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Programming PHP, Second Edition, is an authoritative guide to PHP 5 and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) and other PHP experts. PHP is a simple yet powerful open source scripting language for creating dynamic web content. The millions of web sites powered by PHP are a testament to its popularity and ease of use. PHP is used by programmers, who appreciate its flexibility and speed, and web designers, who value its accessi bility and convenience. This book explains PHP language syntax and programming techniques in a clear and concise manner and includes examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms. It also includes style tips and practical programming advice that will help you become not just a PHP programmer, but a good PHP programmer. Programming PHP, Second Edition, covers everything you need to know to create effective web applications with PHP. Contents basics of the PHP language, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements The basics of functions, strings, arrays, and objects PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies Interacting with relational databases, such as MySQL and Oracle, using the database-independent PEAR DB library and the new PDO library Generating dynamic images, creating PDF files, and parsing XML files with PHP Advanced topics, such as creating secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and writing your own C language extensions to PHP A handy quick reference to all the core functions in PHP and all the standard extensions that ship with PHP.About the Authors Kevin Tatroe has been a Macintosh and Unix programmer for ten years. Being lazy, he's attracted to languages and frameworks that do much of the work for you, such as the AppleScript, Perl, and PHP languages and the WebObjects an

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