Building Custom PHP Extensions


Book Description

A comprehensive guide to developing extensions for PHP. Includes detailed examples for using all of the standard atomic and complex PHP variable types. Also includes object-oriented examples and methods for exposing new internal classes.This book is intended for advanced PHP and C programmers looking to either extend PHP directly or to gain a better understanding of the PHP programming internals.Linux and Windows examples are covered.




Essential PHP Tools


Book Description

* PHP is the leading programming language for developing dynamic web applications. The simplicity of PHP, the ease of development, a large community, and the expansive repository of open source PHP libraries, make it a favorite of web designers and developers. * Describes many useful and popular packages for PHP; Explains how to maintain your own local package repository * Provides lots of examples of how to use little- or poorly-documented PHP packages.




Advanced PHP Programming


Book Description

PHP has exploded in popularity, and is now starting to make inroads into large-scale business-critical Web systems. Schlossnagle provides a definitive guide to developing PHP applications for performance, stability and extensibility.




Comprehensive Php Pear


Book Description

PEAR is about code reuse. That's the primary motivation for this book. If you're a PHP programmer and you've developed any database projects, PEAR::DB is for you. Over the lifetime of PHP there have been several great database abstractions developed, some OO, some not. PEAR::DB is the standard object oriented database abstraction. As PHP continues to evolve and grow in its user base, more and more developers will be hired to maintain and modify existing code. By standardizing on PEAR, maintenance and upgrades will focus on business-specific code and not general-purpose code such as database access. In-depth coverage of: 1. Installing and configuring PEAR and PEAR::DB on Windows and Linux. 2. Using PEAR::DB to access multiple database back ends including MySQL®, PostgreSQL, Microsoft ® SQL Server, SQLite and others. 3. Much more...




Php Oracle Web Development


Book Description

This practical book for PHP/Oracle developers is built around well explained, easy-to-follow example code to build robust, efficient, secure solutions covering popular current topics on using PHP with Oracle. Assuming no special skill level, experienced author Yuli Vasiliev shows how to install and configure PHP and Oracle; connect PHP to Oracle; move application business logic to Oracle; build transactional applications; use security features; improve performance with caching; employ XML features; implement SOAP web services; build Ajax-driven PHP/Oracle solutions. Building and deploying PHP applications on Oracle Database combines the power and robustness of Oracle with the easy, rapid development of open-source PHP to achieve high-performance, scalable, reliable data-driven web applications with minimal effort. Unlike some other databases, Oracle allows building the key business logic of PHP applications inside the database, moving data processing from web server to database server.




The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM


Book Description

SugarCRM is a leading open-source customer relations management tool and development platform with nearly 5.5 million downloads, nearly 17,000 developers, and lots more users. The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM is the first official SugarCRM book available to developers and users. This definitive book begins with a discussion of the SugarCRM platform components, namely MVC, Studio, Module Builder, authentication, and themes. Next, you'll learn how to customize the modules SugarCRM comes with out of the box in an upgrade-safe manner. The text then presents an example application that a typical business might use and shows how to build it using SugarCRM, using both existing functionality as well as newly added functionality.




Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8


Book Description

* The book supports the new version of Dreamweaver, a huge potential market! * This book is fairly unique within that market - a book purely focused on PHP web development with Dreamweaver that teaches professional techniques, and doesn’t treat readers like idiots (it isn’t aimed at the "dummies" audience.) * Dreamweaver has over 3 million users worldwide.




Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development


Book Description

By programmers for programmers-the essential beginner's guide to building websites with Joomla! Want to build and maintain dynamic websites without having to learn HTML and CSS? Joomla! open-source web content management system and this beginner's guide are all you need. This book walks you step-by-step through the process of building a website with Joomla!, providing detailed instruction in Wrox's practical, programmer-to- programmer style. The book explores key concepts and shows how each concept relates to the development of an actual real-world web site you can access online. Joomla! is an open-source web content management system used to build and maintain dynamic web sites without using specific web languages like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Walks you step by step through the process of building a website with Jooma! and features plenty of examples of actual websites that illustrate concepts Topics include configuration; managing content, core modules, plugins, menus, and extensions; building custom templates; and performing troubleshooting; also provides advanced tips and tricks, and more From configuration and management to troubleshooting and advanced tips, this is the book to get you up and running with Joomla!




PHP5 and MySQL Bible


Book Description

This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience




PHP Hacks


Book Description

Offering hands-on tools that range from basic PHP and Pear installation and scripting to advanced multimedia and database optimizing tricks, this text includes hacks for integrating with iTunes, generating PDFs and using X10 to control home heating and security with PHP applications.