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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8

From Novice to Professional

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. W. Jason Gilmore
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  2. Robert H. Treat
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  • Offering a native Windows release, PostgreSQL 8.0 is poised to garner considerable market share in the open source arena. This book shows readers how to harness this popular open source database with PHP, the world’s most popular web scripting language

  • Essentially three books in one, PostgreSQL 8.0 exposes readers to detailed introductions of PHP and PostgreSQL. Readers gain extensive knowledge about these two popular open source technologies to create powerful websites

  • Authored by W. Jason Gilmore, author of the best selling Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, and noted PostgreSQL developer and community liaison Robert Treat

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. An Introduction to PHP

    Pages 1-7

  3. Installing and Configuring Apache and PHP

    Pages 9-41

  4. PHP Basics

    Pages 43-89

  5. Functions

    Pages 91-101

  6. Arrays

    Pages 103-131

  7. Object-Oriented PHP

    Pages 133-156

  8. Advanced OOP Features

    Pages 157-176

  9. Error and Exception Handling

    Pages 177-189

  10. Strings and Regular Expressions

    Pages 191-227

  11. Working with the File and Operating System

    Pages 229-258

  12. PEAR

    Pages 259-270

  13. Date and Time

    Pages 271-301

  14. Forms and Navigational Cues

    Pages 303-323

  15. Authentication

    Pages 325-344

  16. Handling File Uploads

    Pages 345-358

  17. Networking

    Pages 359-398

  18. PHP and LDAP

    Pages 399-423

  19. Session Handlers

    Pages 425-446

  20. Templating with Smarty

    Pages 447-471
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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open-source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. You'll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.

About the authors

W. Jason Gilmore is a web developer and business consultant with more than 15 years of experience helping companies large and small build amazing software solutions. He has been teaching developers from around the world about web development for over a decade, having written six books, including the bestselling Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition and Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, Second Edition .Over the years Jason has been published more than 300 times within popular publications such as Developer.com, PHPBuilder.com, JSMag, and Linux Magazine, and instructed hundreds of students in the United States and Europe. He s recently led the successful development and deployment of a 10,000+ product e-commerce project, and is currently working on a variety of new e-commerce initiatives. Jason is cofounder of the wildly popular CodeMash Conference, the largest multi-day developer event in the Midwest.

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