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The PHP Anthology, Second Edition The PHP Anthology, Second Edition
Harry Fuecks & Davey Shafik

The PHP Anthology, 2nd Edition is the perfect book for intermediate-to-advanced PHP coders seeking a quick reference guide to common programming problems.Harry Fuecks & Davey Shafik have put together the definitive reference work for PHP professionals …


Wicked Cool PHP Wicked Cool PHP
William Steinmetz, Brian Ward

Wicked Cool PHP provides PHP scripts that can be implemented immediately to make programmers' lives easier, including scripts for processing credit cards, getting live shipping quotes, and accepting PayPal payments online. Author William Steinmetz approaches the …


AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications
Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea, Filip CherecheŞ-ToŞa, Mihai Bucica

This book is a practical introduction to creating more responsive web pages using Ajax with PHP and MySQL on the server side. Every chapter is a solution to a problem (such as creating a chat application …


PHP Solutions PHP Solutions
David Powers

In this book you'll learn how to:• 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 …


Building Flickr Applications with PHP Building Flickr Applications with PHP
By Rob Kunkle, Andrew Morton

Building Flickr Applications with PHP teaches you how to use today’s most popular online photo management system. You’ll learn to work with both your own photos and Flickr’s cache, and create new and compelling extensions to …


Creating your MySQL Database Creating your MySQL Database
Marc Delisle

If you're creating a dynamic web application using open-source tools, then you're probably going to be setting up a MySQL database. Getting the design of this database right for your application and its data is vital, …


MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition
Paul DuBois

A handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, this Cookbook addresses specific questions in using MySQL. You'll find dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples that are perfect for …


Linux Server Security Linux Server Security
Michael D. Bauer

Starting in 1843, a steady progression of emigrants began travelling the Oregon Trail. Thousands came west. Some said it was Manifest Destiny and the will of God that America should expand from sea to sea. Others …


MySQL in a Nutshell MySQL in a Nutshell
Mitchell Pirtle

Unlike most programming books that attempt to be a reference, the Nutshell series from O’Reilly takes a completely different approach to provide just the information you need to solve a particular problem. The MySQL in a …


Multi-Tier Application Programming with PHP Multi-Tier Application Programming with PHP
David Wall

In this book author David Wall shows us how to create a PHP application based specifically on a multi-tier architecture and design. The question is: does it live up to the claims?OVERVIEWAt this point in PHP’s …


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 …


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