PHP Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Book Description
When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft鈥檚 ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook鈥檚 unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.

PHP Cookbook has a wealth of solutions for problems that you鈥檒l face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples 鈥?or 鈥渞ecipes鈥?鈥?for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use the new language features in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new PDO data access extension. New sections on classes and objects are included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP/REST architectures. With each recipe, the authors include a discussion that explains the logic and concepts underlying the solution.

About the Author
Adam Trachtenberg is a technical evangelist for eBay and is the author of two O鈥橰eilly books, 鈥淯pgrading to PHP 5鈥?and 鈥淧HP Cookbook鈥? He is a frequent speaker at O鈥橰eilly Open Source Conferences and LinuxWorld. Adam has an MBA from Columbia Business School. While there, he focused on general management and operations, with an emphasis on the field of technology. Adam also has a BA from Columbia University. As an undergraduate, he majored in mathematics, and his other studies included computer science and Chinese.

David Sklar is a software developer at Ning, the latest startup founded by Internet hall of famer Marc Andressen. David was a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both companies, he oversaw the architecture and development of varied systems to deliver personalized dynamic content to users around the world. After discovering PHP as a solution to his web programming needs in 1996, he created the PX (http://px.sklar.com/), which enables PHP users to exchange programs. Since then, he has continued to rely on PHP for personal and professional projects. He is the author of O鈥橰eilly鈥檚 鈥淟earning PHP 5鈥? 鈥淓ssential PHP Tools鈥?(Apress) and the coauthor of 鈥淧HP Cookbook鈥?(O鈥橰eilly).

Book Details

    * Paperback: 810 pages
    * Publisher: O鈥橰eilly Media, Inc.; 2nd Edition (August 2006)
    * Language: English
    * ISBN-10: 0596101015
    * ISBN-13: 978-0596101015


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