Right from the start, you're shown how easy it is to protect your sites by adopting secure coding practices. The book has been written with an eye on forward and backward compatibility—recommending the latest PHP 5 techniques, but providing alternative solutions for servers still running PHP 4.3. All database examples demonstrate how to use the original MySQL extension, MySQL Improved, or the PHP Data Objects (PDO) introduced in PHP 5.1, letting you choose the most suitable option for your setup.
In this book you'll learn how to:
- Create dynamic websites with design and usability in mind, as well as functionality
- Understand how PHP scripts work, giving you confidence to adapt them to your own needs
- Bring online forms to life, check required fields, and ensure user input is safe to process
- Upload files and automatically create thumbnails from larger images
- Manage website content with a searchable database
Summary of Contents:
- Chapter 1: What Is PHP—And Why Should I Care?
- Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Work with PHP
- Chapter 3: How to Write PHP Scripts
- Chapter 4: Lightening Your Workload with Includes
- Chapter 5: Bringing Forms to Life
- Chapter 6: Uploading Files
- Chapter 7: Using PHP to Manage Files
- Chapter 8: Generating Thumbnail Images
- Chapter 9: Pages That Remember: Simple Login and Multipage Forms
- Chapter 10: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin
- Chapter 11: Getting Started with a Database
- Chapter 12: Creating a Dynamic Online Gallery
- Chapter 13: Managing Content
- Chapter 14: Solutions to Common PHP/MySQL Problems
- Chapter 15: Keeping Intruders at Bay
Who is this book for?
This book is intended for developers who are new to PHP as it runs you trough from setting up the correct enviroment for your PHP applications to the basics of programming with PHP.
Conclusion
As with most books from Friends of Ed, this book has a good layout. The book teaches you the basics of building Dynamic Websites with PHP code. It shows you how the importance of PHP, helps you with the installation process, shows you how to work with PHP with basic code examples, how to create common elements, how to work with PHP and MySQL and databases and it shows you how to secure your website. It also explains the differences between PHP 4 and 5 and what you can expect in version 6. This book offers an execellent starting point for the beginning PHP programmer, it stands out from otherbooks because of it's practicality and useful code.
Competition
We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of the PHP Solutions book. The friendly people of Friends Of Ed are giving away 5 books!
All you need to do, to enter the competition is, download the sample PDF and finish the following sentence:
"getimagesize() returns an array containing .... elements."
Send your answer to this e-mail address, before Thursday the 19th of April 2007. Don't forget to include your post address and phone number (required for international shipping) in the e-mail.
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