Pro.PHP.and.jQuery

The brain child of developer John Resig jQuery was first announced at BarCamp NYC in early 2006. Resig noted on his web site, that he created jQuery because he was unhappy with the currently available libraries and felt that they could be vastly improved by reducing “syntactic fluff” and adding specific controls for common actions. jQuery was a big hit in the development community and quickly gained momentum. Other developers came on to help refine the library, ultimately resulting in the first stable release of jQuery, version 1.0, on August 26, 2006. Since then, jQuery has progressed to version 1.4.2 (at the time of this writing) and has seen a huge influx of plug-ins from the development community. A plug-in is an extension of jQuery that isn’t part of the core library. With this book as your guide, you’ll able to Combining jQuery with PHP Applications.

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Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL® Web Development

This book covers how to learn about your visitors through the use of log files and how to troubleshoot common mistakes or problems. The appendixes in this book provide you with the necessary reference materials you’ll need to assist you in your Web site development journey and offer tools to make you more efficient.

After reading this book, you will be able to create a well-designed, dynamic Web site using tools available for free. Although this book is not intended to be a detailed analysis of Apache, PHP, and MySQL, it points you in the right direction to explore further issues you may wish to delve into.

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The Underground PHP and Oracle® Manual

This book is aimed at PHP developers who are developing applications against an Oracle database. You may already be using another database and have a requirement or a preference to move to Oracle. You may be starting out with PHP database development. You may be unsure how to install PHP and Oracle. This book aims to remove any confusion.
This book is not a complete PHP or Oracle guide. It is assumed that you already have basic PHP and SQL knowledge and want best practices in using PHP against an Oracle database.

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Extending and Embedding PHP

In just a few years PHP has rapidly evolved from a small niche language to a powerful web development tool. Now in use on over 14 million Web sites, PHP is more stable and extensible than ever. However, there is no documentation on how to extend PHP; developers seeking to build PHP extensions and increase the performance and functionality of their PHP applications are left to word of mouth and muddling through PHP internals without systematic, helpful guidance. Although the basics of extension writing are fairly easy to grasp, the more advanced features have a tougher learning curve that can be very difficult to overcome. This is common at any moderate to high-traffic site, forcing the company hire talented, and high-priced, developers to increase performance. With Extending and Embedding PHP, Sara Golemon makes writing extensions within the grasp of every PHP developer, while guiding the reader through the tricky internals of PHP.

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Professional PHP Programming

This book is for anyone who has to implement web-based applications that go beyond simple static pages. If you are attempting to build a database-driven site, or you are new to the whole "dynamic web content generation paradigm", or just want to make some nifty server-side scripts, read this book. If you are an experienced developer that has used until now only product ‘ABC’ that works for the ‘Kewl-OS’ platform, but feel the need to build solutions that are more portable and that can be developed in a short period of time, read this book.

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PHP 5 in Practice

With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP's success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code to solve common PHP problems. It focuses on providing real code solutions to problems, allowing the reader to learn by seeing exactly what is happening behind the scenes to get your solution. Because a real-life situation will rarely match the book's example problems precisely, PHP 5 in Practice explains the solution well enough that you will understand it and can learn how to truly solve your own problem.

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Programmers Introduction To PHP 4

The PHP scripting language is the culmination of the collaboration of development efforts across the globe, resulting in the creation of a wonderfully rich and powerful Web development language. The sixteen chapters in this book delve into the many features that make this language so popular, beginning with a thorough introduction of the general concepts and constructs of the language, then moving into issues pertaining to Web development, such as building dynamic pages, creating dynamic links, and database interfacing. Finally, attention is directed toward advanced Web development and the role PHP can play in it, discussing XML, JavaScript, COM objects, and security.download