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Essential PHP Tools Essential PHP Tools
David Sklar

This book intends to simplify programming tasks through the use of add-on modules and packages. The intended audience is intermediate-to-advanced, although I believe it is also of great use to the uninitiated. The Introduction provides a …


PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Allan Kent et. al

In PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, authors Allan Kent and David Powers talk not only about Dreamweaver MX 2004 (DMX), but also discuss many of the common aspects of working in the PHP …


MySQL Language Reference MySQL Language Reference
The MySQL AB Team

Why would anyone want to buy a book that is essentially available for free over the Internet? This is the question I found myself coming back to as I looked through the book, but firstly, let's …


Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora
Bill McCarty

There have been several attempts to document the use of Linux as a desktop, and most have been less-than-stellar for folks making the switch. When I learned that O'Reilly was going to cover Red Hat Enterprise …


Open Source Web Development with LAMP Open Source Web Development with LAMP
Derick Rethans

This book on LAMP is not primarily focused on PHP, actually quite a small part is devoted to PHP.It starts with a very brief explanation in layman’s terms on how the internet works, including serving web …


Professional PHP Web Services Professional PHP Web Services
James Fuller, Harry Fuecks, et al

I was looking forward to receiving this book for my first review, I mean, wow… free book! Imagine my disappointment when a surprisingly slim package falls through my letterbox. The book is a mere 480 pages …


Hardening Apache Hardening Apache
Tony Mobily

INTRODUCTIONHardening Apache takes on the unenviable task of providing information about securely installing everyone's favorite HTTP daemon, Apache. It is common to have developers pushed into double-duty – or, for that matter, triple-duty – for performing …


PHP4 XML PHP4 XML
Derick Rethans

PHP is hot, XML is hot, the combination of those two popular technologies seems to be the ultimate solution toeverything. But in which ways can PHP help you working with XML documents? This book tries to …


PHP4 Multimedia Programming PHP4 Multimedia Programming
Derick Rethans

Although PHP is not a real Multimedia Programming language, the articles in this issue proved that it can be used fine to handle Multimedia problems. This book also focuses on Multimedia, and more specifically on PDF, …


Programming PHP Programming PHP
Sebastian Bergmann

It certainly took its time, but now it’s out: a PHP book from the famous “Programming” series by O’Reilly. O’Reilly has a tradition of letting only creators or core developers of a language write books for …


PHP4 Web Development Solutions PHP4 Web Development Solutions
Ryan Sinn

Professional PHP4 Web Development Solutions (PPWDS) is an excellent guide to understanding the basis of well-designed and practical solutions to many typical realworld PHP projects. Within this book none of the authors are PHP zealots, but …


XML and PHP XML and PHP
Derick Rethans

Another approach on introducing XML to PHP programmers is done in this book from New Riders. It is not as buzzword compliant as the Professional PHP 4 XML book from Wrox, but still comes rather close. …


Programming PHP Programming PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf & Kevin Tatroe

It certainly took its time, but now it's out: a PHP book from the famous “Programming” series by O'Reilly. O'Reilly has a tradition of letting only creators or core developers of a language write books for …


MySQL/PHP-Database Applications MySQL/PHP-Database Applications
Jan Lehnardt

Taking a look at the PHP related books on the market; you will notice that most of them are aimed at beginners.Instead of collecting and compiling information out of the various online resources into book, Jay …


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