Product Description

PHP has become even more powerful as a Web development tool with the addition of two new modules -- PHP-GTK and PEAR::DB. Advanced PHP for Web Development fills a void in the PHP book market for an advanced-level book showing how to create complex Web sites. The authors create custom graphics using PHP-GTK to make application interfaces more intuitive to users. They also show how to create Web applications that are database independent -- not relying on MySQL or MS SQL, or Oracle—using the new PEAR::DB module! Through working code examples and applications, Cosentino takes readers through intermediate tasks that will have an impact on the usability of their Web site, including how to create friendlier forms and use different user-authentication themes. Later sections of the book take readers through more complex code examples and applications, so that, by the end of the book, the reader will be armed with the skills (and working code) to create powerful PHP-backed Web sites!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1013689 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-11
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From the Back Cover

• Build complex, PHP-driven Web sites—fast!
• Discover powerful new PHP techniques, hands on!
• Learn all-new techniques based on PHP-GTK and PEAR::DB
• Master XML parsing, user authentication, forms processing, data mining, and much more

Take your PHP programming skills to the next level!

In this concise, hands-on tutorial, PHP expert Christopher Cosentino delivers dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Through professional-quality examples drawn from his six years as a PHP developer, Cosentino walks you through building friendlier, more usable sites; improving user authentication; generating dynamic graphics; parsing XML documents; building database-independent Web applications; and much more!

Take PHP to the limit... and beyond!

• Manage sessions more effectively
• Interact with multiple databases via PEAR::DB
• Improve your form processing scripts
• Parse large files and perform data mining
• Authenticate users by IP address, database query, or HTTP authentication
• Create custom error handlers
• Dump database contents into XML files
• Use PHP-GTK to build client-side cross-platform GUI applications
• And more...

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER COSENTINO is currently a technical writer for Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been a freelance Web developer since 1996, specializing in the use of PHP to build e-commerce applications. He is author of Essential PHP for Web Professionals (Prentice Hall PTR).

Customer Reviews

Good but better out there.
If you have been using PHP for say 6-12 months and are ready to try some new tricks you may find this book helpful. If on the other hand you are an experienced developer you probably won't get all that much from it and I don't say that to be critical.

I personally purchased it thinking I'd learn some new tips and tricks however after reading through the book I came to the conclusion that if this is advanced, I know more than I thought I did. So, if you have passed or think you would pass the Zend PHP certification, this isn't for you. If you know the syntax and have been fooling around with PHP and want to start building real websites with it then yeah this may be for you...