Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

William Steinmetz, Brian Ward9781593271732, 1593271735

Книга Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult ProblemsКниги PHP Автор: William Steinmetz, Brian Ward Год издания: 2008 Формат: chm Издат.:No Starch Press Страниц: 224 Размер: 1,9 Mb ISBN: 1593271735 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language works, wouldn’t it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your site? We thought so, too. Instead of starting at “Hello World,” Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you’re familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly wished for PHP scripts-you’ll work your way through smart configuration options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex database-backed scripts.Wicked Cool PHP contains a wide variety of scripts to process credit cards, check the validity of email addresses, template HTML, and serve dynamic images and text. The 76 easily implemented scripts will also teach you how to: Send and receive email notifications Track your visitors’ behavior with cookies and sessions Override PHP’s default settings Manipulate dates, images, and text on the fly Harness SOAP and other web services Create an online poll, ecard delivery system, and blog But it’s not all fun and games: Security is a big concern when programming any web application. So you’ll learn how to encrypt your confidential data, safeguard your passwords, and prevent common cross-site-scripting attacks. And you’ll learn how to customize all of the scripts to fit your own needs. Dynamic Web content doesn’t have to be difficult. Learn the secrets of the craft from two experienced PHP developers with Wicked Cool PHP.Summary: A great resource for PHP programmersRating: 5I saw this book on a friends desk and shamelessly took it before he had a chance to read it. I have many php books on my bookshelf, too many. I can now remove quite a few and replace them with this book. When I first glanced through this book, I was intrigued by the way it was laid out. There are 12 chapters covering many topics that php programmers should know about their language and how browsers interact with a web server using php. Each chapter has many sections that cover a specific topic and most have very useful code examples. The extra feature is a part labeled: “What can go Wrong?”. This is a great time saver on how to deal with common issues that might come up when you are working on your php script and implementing the example code. Most of the issues have really good explanations of how and why something could go wrong. What makes this book a real keeper is that they have the “why” explanations. I’ve always hated it when books tell you to do something a certain way, but never go into any depth on WHY you should do it one way or another. This book has the WHY covered very well for a great number of the examples. The style of the book makes it easy to read and learn from the examples. In my case, it makes it easy to pickup, read a few pages when I get the chance and then put it down again. I find it easy to pick up right where I left off and keep reading right on to the next example. I like the humor level too. Often authors can get a little too cutesy with their wit and humor. I find that to be a real turn off. William and Brian (The authors) do a great job of keeping the humor light and laughable. I just made some room on my busy book shelf for this book of 76 time-saving, problem-solving php scripts. I hope my friend doesn’t ask for it back… Summary: Become A PHP WaRRioR!!!Rating: 5’Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems’ is a fantastic PHP cookbook that is written exactly the way I like books to be written: – it’s fun to read and learn from – content is broken up logically at the right points – layout and design is a joy on the eyes and brain – length is around 200 pages which is within the 2-3 (hundred) range that I like most books to be Content is broken up over 12 chapters: 01. Basic script stuff 02. Configuring PHP 03. PHP Security 04. Form Fun 05. Text & HTML 06. Dates 07. Files 08. User and Session Tracking 09. Email Excitement 10. Image Tasks 11. Using cURL to talk to web services 12. Other Stuff The audience for this book hits the rare area of ALL developers from the expert to the newbie to the weekend hacker. There are 76 scripts contained within that nearly anyone could find useful in any project. I love No Starch books because they don’t feel like reference materials, rather they package it in a fun way from the glossy cover to smart design. No Starch gets ‘it’ when it comes to what geeks want and PHPites you will WANT this book!! ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED