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Pro PHP Programming

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  • The only modern PHP book dealing with PHP and the most recent web technologies

  • Fully PHP 5.3x compliant

  • Takes OO programming and design for PHP seriously

  • Includes PHP programming for NoSQL and relational databases

  • Teaches the search framework Sphinx

  • Equips programmer with the ability to use JSON and program for Facebook.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Object Orientation

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 1-19
  3. Exceptions and References

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 21-30
  4. Mobile PHP

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 31-55
  5. Social Media

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 57-91
  6. Cutting Edge

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 93-109
  7. Form Design and Management

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 111-126
  8. Database Integration I

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 127-160
  9. Database Integration II

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 161-187
  10. Database Integration III

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 189-211
  11. Libraries

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 213-242
  12. Security

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 243-261
  13. Agile Development with Zend Studio for Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mylyn, and Subversion

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 263-276
  14. Refactoring, Unit Testing, and Continuous Integration

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 277-322
  15. XML

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 323-345
  16. JSON and Ajax

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 347-384
  17. Conclusion

    • Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
    Pages 385-390
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 391-418

About this book

If you are a web programmer, you need to know modern PHP. This book presents with many new areas in which PHP plays a large role. If you want to write a mobile application using geo-location data, Pro PHP Programming will show you how. Additionally, if you need to make sure that you can write a multilingual indexing application using Sphinx, this book will help you avoid the pitfalls.

Of course, Pro PHP Programming gives a thorough survey of PHP post-5.3. You'll begin by working through an informative survey and clear guide to object-oriented PHP. Then, you'll be set for the core of the book on modern PHP applications. Now, you'll be able to start with the chapter on PHP for mobile programming and move on to sampling social media applications. You'll also be guided through new PHP programming language features like closures and namespaces.

Pro PHP Programming deals with filtering data from users and databases next, so you'll be well prepared for relational and NoSQL databases. Of course, you can also learn about data retrieval from other sources, like OCR libraries or websites. Then the question of how to format and present data arises, and in Pro PHP Programming, you'll find solutions via JSON, AJAX and XML.

About the authors

Mladen Gogala is a highly-respected Oracle-certified database administrator with more than 15 years of IT experience and a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Gogala has extensive experience in UNIX scripting, Oracle tuning and UNIX system administration, using every popular dialect of UNIX and Linux. Gogala is also a respected member of the popular Oracle-l list, where he assists in solving complex Oracle questions. By now, he has branched out into Perl and PHP, and has become equally expert at both.

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eBook USD 39.99
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  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 49.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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