Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2
EAN: 9780596006815
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0596006810
Label: O'Reilly Media
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: April 28, 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Studio: O'Reilly Media

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
When it comes to creating websites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. This book contains chapters that show you how to generate dynamic images, create PDF files, and parse XML files with PHP. It offers coverage of common PHP web application techniques, such as form processing and validation, session tracking, and cookies.

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Coauthored by its creator, Programming PHP is a nitty-gritty guide to PHP development. PHP is an open-source scripting language used to build dynamic Web sites. In this title, the authors go step-by-step through the language, including brief coverage of common applications such as graphics or database work.

The first six chapters explain PHP essentials, including data types, functions, string manipulation, arrays and objects. Next comes a look at basic Web techniques, followed by an introduction to database access. There is a chapter on generating graphics with the GD extension library and another on creating Adobe PDF documents. The authors then show how to parse XML, and there is a section on security with some handy tips for protecting PHP sites. A chapter on application techniques looks at code libraries, performance tuning and handling errors. Next there is an explanation of how to build extensions to PHP using C, followed by a look at Windows issues such as COM and ODBC. Finally, there is a complete reference to the standard functions in PHP 4.0.

This is not an advanced programming book, but even experienced coders will discover new things about the language and get a clearer understanding of how PHP works. The specialist chapters such as those on XML or PHP extensions tend to be introductory, so readers will need further resources. For example, the database section is short, and would be best read alongside Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL or another book with more detailed database coverage. Even so, this is a strong hands-on title that PHP developers will want to keep close at hand. ----Tim Anderson




Rating: - Too many mistakes
I found this book a good introduction to PHP. But, it has a lot of mistakes. I think these have happened when the book was updated to cover PHP 5.

For example, when it describes constructors it says the constructor is a function named __construct(). But then it immediately gives an example where the constructor for class Person is a function called Person(). The former is PHP 5, the latter is PHP 4. Perhaps the update was a rush job.

If you can't already program in C or ... Read More

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Rating: - Very Good
Written in the standard O'Reilly style, this book gives you a comprehensive coverage of PHP without being overly verbose or too dryly technical. Now in its 2nd edition this book covers the most recent version of PHP, version 5.

While I wouldn't want to learn PHP as a first programming language from this book, anybody with a basic knowledge of HTML and an OOP based language (Java, C++ or even JavaScript) will quickly be able to code PHP.

While the book isn't perfect: the ... Read More

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Rating: - An O'Reilly Classic
This book is similar to every other O'Reilly book in that it is clear, concise and to the point. Never does it waffle on, and never does it go into too much detail and complexity that everyone except the best programmers understands it.
I personally found the explanation of objects and their classes to be better than the other explanations I have read for different languages, and certainly made picking up OOP in PHP a lot easier. Throughout is the obvious knowledge of the authors, something ... Read More

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Rating: - Easy start in dynamic webpages
PHP is a great language to start creating dynamic websites with - it's easy to learn, but very powerful.

This book will start you out on the right tracks with PHP and help you build up your experience - even once you're experienced, you'll still turn to it for reference.

As usual, it's a solid O'Reilly title, it won't let you down. Being co-written by Rasmus himself (the creator of PHP) it benefits from more than a little extra experience and inside information.

Basically, ... Read More

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Rating: - Perfect for the beginner and very resourceful for others
I bought this book as a friend of mine from my computer course at university asked to me to help him with some coding he was doing for a company. I had only learnt Java in my life and I was pretty competent with that but I had never heard of php so this seemed like a very daunting task. The only reason I decided to try to learn it was that he kept saying that it was easy.

I got an extremely big shock when I realised he was absolutely right. Despite it being very similar to C and thus Java, it ... Read More

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