Overview
PHP is currently one of the most popular server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language on the Web. It's specifically designed for Web site creation and is frequently being used to replace the functionality created by Perl to write CGI scripts. PHP's popularity and easier-to-learn appeal has spawned a new breed of programmer, those who are only familiar with and only use PHP.Sharpen your PHP skills with the fully revised and updated, PHP 5 Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide! Filled with fifteen chapters of step-by-step content and written by best-selling author and PHP programmer, Larry Ullman, this guide teaches specific topics in direct, focused segments, shows how PHP is used in real-world applications, features popular and most-asked-about scripts, and details those technologies that will be more important in the future. You'll learn about object-oriented programming, PHP interactions with a server, XML, RSS, Networking with PHP, image and PDF generation, and more.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewToday, you need deeper PHP skills for building smarter Web, database, and e-commerce applications. This book delivers those skills -- and, like all of Peachpit's Visual QuickPro Guides, it's wonderfully readable and usable.
You've already experienced Larry Ullman's deep PHP knowledge if you've read his excellent PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide). Here, he starts fast, showing how to modularize sites and run entire applications through one index page; keep caches from returning old pages; and even use PHP5 with Ajax. There's extensive security coverage, including storing session data in the database, using PEAR Auth, and leveraging PECL filters for data validation and sanitization.
Haven't started writing object-oriented PHP yet? Ullman walks you from the basics through abstract classes and other advanced features. You'll find powerful techniques for networking, including IP geolocation; and for utilizing servers to compress files, create graphics, even generate spreadsheets. Bill Camarda, from the June 2007 Read Only