Programming PHP
Creating Dynamic Web Pages
4th Edition
Published on 27. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
540 pages
978-1-4920-5413-9 (ISBN)
Description
Why is PHP the most widely used programming language on the web? This updated edition teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications using the latest features in PHP 7.4. You'll start with the big picture and then dive into language syntax, programming techniques, and other details, using examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms.
If you have a working knowledge of HTML, authors Kevin Tatroe and Peter MacIntyre provide many style tips and practical programming advice in a clear and concise manner to help you become a top-notch PHP programmer.
Understand what's possible when you use PHP programs
Learn language fundamentals, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
Explore functions, strings, arrays, and objects
Apply common web application techniques, such as form processing, data validation, session tracking, and cookies
Interact with relational databases like MySQL or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files
Learn secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and other advanced topics
Get a quick reference to PHP core functions and standard extensions
If you have a working knowledge of HTML, authors Kevin Tatroe and Peter MacIntyre provide many style tips and practical programming advice in a clear and concise manner to help you become a top-notch PHP programmer.
Understand what's possible when you use PHP programs
Learn language fundamentals, including data types, variables, operators, and flow control statements
Explore functions, strings, arrays, and objects
Apply common web application techniques, such as form processing, data validation, session tracking, and cookies
Interact with relational databases like MySQL or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files
Learn secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning, and other advanced topics
Get a quick reference to PHP core functions and standard extensions
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
919 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4920-5413-9 (9781492054139)
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E-Book
03/2020
O'Reilly
€42.49
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E-Book
03/2020
O'Reilly
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Previous edition
Kevin Tatroe | Peter MacIntyre | Rasmus Lerdorf
Programming PHP
Book
02/2013
3rd Edition
O'Reilly
€32.00
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Persons
Kevin Tatroe has been a Macintosh and Unix programmer for twenty years, and an iOS programmer since the hour the iOS SDK released to the public. Being lazy, he's attracted to languages and frameworks that do much of the work for you, such as PHP, Python, and Swift. Peter MacIntyre has over 28 years of experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of PHP and Web Technologies. He has contributed writing material for many IT industry publications: Author of PHP: The Good Parts (O'Reilly); co-author: Pro PHP Programming (APress), Programming PHP (3rd Edition - O'Reilly), Using Visual Objects, Using PowerBuilder 5, ASP.NET Bible, Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages, and Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide.
Peter is a co-founder and past co-chair and past board member for the Northeast PHP Developer's Conference held in Boston, MA and Charlottetown, PE Canada for the last 6 years (northeastphp.org). As well, Peter has spoken several times at North American and International computer conferences including PHPCE 2017 in Warsaw, Poland; PHP[World] 2016 in Washington, DC; ZendCon 2016 in Las Vegas, NortheastPHP 2017 & 2016 (Charlottetown, PE, Canada), Prairie Dev Con 2016 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP 5.3 and PHP 4.0.
Peter is a co-founder and past co-chair and past board member for the Northeast PHP Developer's Conference held in Boston, MA and Charlottetown, PE Canada for the last 6 years (northeastphp.org). As well, Peter has spoken several times at North American and International computer conferences including PHPCE 2017 in Warsaw, Poland; PHP[World] 2016 in Washington, DC; ZendCon 2016 in Las Vegas, NortheastPHP 2017 & 2016 (Charlottetown, PE, Canada), Prairie Dev Con 2016 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP 5.3 and PHP 4.0.