PHP Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 810 pages
• Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Edition: 2nd Edition August 25, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0596101015
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596101015
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.6 pounds

Product Description
When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than twenty million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's 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'll face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples -- or "recipes" -- 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'Reilly books, "Upgrading to PHP 5" and "PHP Cookbook". He is a frequent speaker at O'Reilly 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 requirements 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'Reilly's "Learning PHP 5", "Essential PHP Tools" (Apress) and the coauthor of "PHP Cookbook" (O'Reilly).

Reader Reviews
This review is from: PHP Cookbook (Paperback) I ordered a copy of the "PHP Cookbook ORA", along with a copy of the "Professional PHP 4 web Development Solutions WROX". Upon reading both these books, i thought i should offer a honest review comparing the two: Both the books were informative in their own right o The ORA book had small snippets of code based solutions (very similar to the PHP Developers cookbook from Sterling and Andrei) that are very useful for programmers who are confounded with small to medium coding problems. However, there was nothing enterprising about the coverage, that one could not achieve from using a combination of the online docs + mailing lists. Another downside was that i could not find full solutions that i could re-use in my projects. On the Other hand, i found o The WROX book offered complete solutions to real world problems - a Simple/advanced CMS (the core of which you can plug into your site), a simple search engine, a classified ads board, and lots of cool creative case study solutions that i could extend to use in my hobby sites. The content was very enterprising and all of the solutions presented are the most popular one's amongst web developers these days. More interesting is that these solutions can be completely re-used and extended into your projects. However, the downside of this book is that you would need to have prior PHP knowledge either picked up from WROX' Professional PHP 4 (as is mentioned as a pre-requisite in the book) or from the Programming PHP ORA, or any another competent professional PHP programming books in the market. So the bottomline is: oCare for an appetiser - Pick up the ORA book. oCare for a full meal - Pick up the Wrox book. I am posting this same review for both the books (so customers can benefit from it). However, i have ranked the Wrox book, a notch above this one, simply because i wanted a burp:-)