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Author: David Powers
ISBN : B004VHAYVS
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This is the second edition of David Powers' highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the first edition and to offer the latest techniques—a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.
You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe you've dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you can't get past baby steps. If this describes you, then you've just found the right book. PHP and the MySQL database are deservedly the most popular combination for creating dynamic websites. They're free, easy to use, and provided by many web hosting companies in their standard packages.
Unfortunately, most PHP books either expect you to be an expert already or force you to go through endless exercises of little practical value. In contrast, this book gives you real value right away through a series of practical examples that you can incorporate directly into your sites, optimizing performance and adding functionality such as file uploading, email feedback forms, image galleries, content management systems, and much more. Each solution is created with not only functionality in mind, but also visual design.
But this book doesn't just provide a collection of ready-made scripts: each PHP Solution builds on what's gone before, teaching you the basics of PHP and database design quickly and painlessly. By the end of the book, you'll have the confidence to start writing your own scripts or—if you prefer to leave that task to others—to adapt existing scripts to your own requirements. Right from the start, you're shown how easy it is to protect your sites by adopting secure coding practices.
What you’ll learn
- Updates to the first edition with the latest PHP techniques for modern, dynamic web design
- Create dynamic websites with design and usability in mind, as well as functionality
- Understand how PHP scripts work, giving you confidence to adapt them to your own needs
- Bring online forms to life, check required fields, and ensure user input is safe to process
- Upload files and automatically create thumbnails from larger images
- Manage website content with a searchable database
Who this book is for
This is a "must have" reference book for any Web developer using PHP scripting language. If you have read the first edition classic, then this update will bring you the latest PHP techniques and best practices. If you are new to dynamic web design with PHP, then David will introduce you to the core techniques and methods for dynamic PHP web sites, ready for the 21st century!
Table of Contents
What Is PHP—And Why Should I Care? Getting Ready to Work with PHP How to Write PHP Scripts Lightening Your Workload with Includes Bringing Forms to Life Uploading Files Using PHP to Manage Files Generating Thumbnail Images Pages That Remember: Simple Login and Multipage Forms Getting Started with MySQL Connecting to MySQL with PHP and SQL Creating a Dynamic Online Gallery Managing Content Formatting Text and Dates Pulling Data from Multiple Tables Managing Multiple Database Tables Authenticating Users with a Database Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy
- File Size: 9895 KB
- Print Length: 527 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1430232498
- Publisher: friendsofED; 2 edition (November 24, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004VHAYVS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #961,543 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I'm about to start a new PHP project for our university website and was going to do it with the first edition of Dave Powers's PHP Solutions at my elbow. Now it will be the second edition. I have other PHP books and may dip into them a bit, but this is the one that will see me through.
It seems that Powers came to computer guru-dom from a career in broadcast journalism, and it shows in his ability to present exactly the information I need in exactly the way I need it. I'm a fairly experienced user-developer, but not a technical person. Powers is a wizard and at the same time a first-rate "host" to the reader. He understands the difference between making an explanation ALMOST confusion-free and getting it just right. His writing style pleasantly engages you on grown-up terms, with no static of jokiness to cut through.
As for content, PHP Solutions is, as the title declares, a solution-oriented approach to getting things done with PHP, not a ground-up tutorial or a dictionary-like reference. But I find that the challenges and solutions Powers has assembled amount to an important part of what I want to get done on a project. You can learn PHP basics anywhere (although Powers gives you a refresher in those, too) and then, when it comes to putting a particular capability into your website, turn to this book for the solution. For example, when I look at the code I wrote for my course-management system to display a list of students' reports with short extracts in screens of ten students each, I find the following comment:
// *** Prepare for paging through query results, displaying a specified number
//of records on the page and inserting a record-navigation system above and
//below the records.
Almost four years ago I was lucky enough to buy the book "PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy", I was lucky because in 2006 PHP books was not so numerous as today or at least the greater part of those existing was too much similar to the official PHP manual containing only the general description of the language, its main functions and supplied only with basic examples not really useful. I have always planned and realized the graphical part of the Web sites and having to the age a very basic knowledge of PHP and Database the only alternative was to search and use pre-made PHP scripts, often meeting unsurmountable mistakes in my works.
David Powers in its books guides the reader step by step to understand the infinite power of PHP language through practical projects to realize, following the philosophy of the subtitle: "Dynamic Web Design Made Easy". This second edition adopts the same structure of the previous book but has been updated following the natural evolution of the language: PHP is an alive language and from 1995 to today it upgraded adding a lot of powerful features. Altough the first edition of the book already took in consideration version 5 of PHP - while version 4 was used by all - this second edition raises the compatibility to version 5.3 assuring also full compatibility with future PHP v. 6, under development for several years and never ended to a really usable release until now.