David Sklar

Essential PHP Tools

Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

PHP is the leading programming language for developing dynamic web applications. The simplicity of PHP, the ease of development, a large community, and the expansive repository of open source PHP libraries, make it a favorite of web designers and developers.

Describes many useful and popular packages for PHP; Explains how to maintain your own local package repository

Provides lots of examples of how to use little- or poorly-documented PHP packages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apress
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-59059-280-9
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
• Seitenzahl: 347
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781590592809
• ISBN-10: 1590592808
• Artikelnr.: 12587193

Autorenporträt

David Sklar is an instructor at The New School University and an independent technology consultant. He is coauthor of the book PHP Cookbook and the author of the Learning PHP. David has spoken at many conferences, including the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, the EGovOS Open Source/Open Standards Conference, and the International PHP Conference. His consulting practice focuses on interactive Internet applications, distributed systems, scalability, and security. Additionally, David is a principal of the Transparency Project, a nonprofit organization that coordinates data markup standards and builds tools that analyze publicly available political and campaign finance information. David was a founder and the chief technology officer of both Student.Com and TVGrid.Com, where he led teams of PHP developers that built multilingual data-driven web applications. He holds a degree in computer science from Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Accessing Databases with DB
2. Accessing Databases with ADODB
3. Using HTML_QuickForm for Form Processing
4. Templating with Smarty
5. Performing Event-Based XML Parsing with XML_Parser
6. Developing Lightweight Web Services with XML_RPC
7. Developing Heavyweight Web Services with SOAP
8. Performing Easier XML Parsing with SimpleXML
9. Sending Mail
10. Working with Authentication, Users, and Passwords
11. Understanding PHP Internals
12. Profiling and Debugging with Xdebug
13. Accelerating with Code Caches

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This book intends to simplify programming tasks through the use ... . The intended audience is intermediate-to-advanced, although I believe it is also of great use to the uninitiated. The Introduction provides a solid introduction to the use of PEAR ... . The section on databases is required reading for anyone wishing to ... . The Smarty chapter is an excellent introduction into templating ... . Especially enjoyable is the chapter on PEAR's Mail_mime ... . I particularly enjoyed the level of detail given ... ." (Mitchell Pirtle, International PHP Magazine, Issue no. 4, 2004)