Pro PHP XML and Web Services More Easy for Beginner

Pro PHP XML and Web Services is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF, RSS, WDDX, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP, and UDDI.
Author Robert Richards, a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase, is a leading expert in the PHP community. In this book, Richards covers all topics in depth, blending theory with practical examples. You'll find case studies for the most popular web services like Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. The book also covers XML capabilities, demonstrated through informative examples, in the PEAR libraries.
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Pro PHP XML and Web Services

Pro PHP XML and Web Services is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF, RSS, WDDX, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP, and UDDI.
Author Robert Richards, a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase, is a leading expert in the PHP community. In this book, Richards covers all topics in depth, blending theory with practical examples. You'll find case studies for the most popular web services like Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. The book also covers XML capabilities, demonstrated through informative examples, in the PEAR libraries.
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Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL...
Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!
Suddenly, it¡¯s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you¡¯ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications¨Call backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.
Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills you¡¯ll need to build virtually any application. You¡¯ll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.
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PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy

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
You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe you've dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you can't get past baby steps. If this describes you, then you've just found the right book.
PHP and the MySQL database are deservedly the most popular combination for creating dynamic websites. They're free, easy to use, and provided by many web hosting companies in their standard packages. Unfortunately, most PHP books either expect you to be an expert already or force you to go through endless exercises of little practical value. In contrast, this book gives you real value right away through a series of practical examples that you can incorporate directly into your sites, optimizing performance and adding functionality such as file uploading, email feedback forms, image galleries, content management systems, and much more. Each solution is created with not only functionality in mind, but also visual design.
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Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer's Guide to SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is not only the job of the marketing department. It must be considered from a web site's inception and throughout its lifetime by you, the web site developer. Making changes to the architecture of a web site and modifying presentation techniques can dramatically increase search engine rankings and traffic levels.
Written for the PHP developer or tech-savvy marketer, this unique reference provides techniques for creating and maintaining web sites optimized for search engines. You'll discover how to facilitate the indexing of your site, as well as how to leverage specific technologies and services for site promotion. You will understand the role of web site architecture in search engine optimization and explore various topics therein. Knowing this will help you to develop a site that achieves great search engine rankings. Finally, you'll apply this knowledge by creating a sample e-commerce catalog and an optimized WordPress blog.

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Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP

In Practical PHP Web 2.0 Applications, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax development techniques are brought together to show you how to create the hottest PHP web applications, from planning and design up to final implementation, without going over unnecessary basics that will hold you back. This book includes must-have application features such as search functionality, maps, blogs, dynamic image galleries, and personalized user areas.
Topics covered include application planning and design; setting up the application framework; using CSS for easier styling; adding dynamic effects the easy way--using JavaScript libraries such as Prototype and script.aculo.us; and implementing several must-have web application features such as user login, blogs, dynamic image galleries, search functionality, mapping with map APIs, and much more. Zervaas covers everything in a practical, tutorial style so you can start working on your own projects as quickly as possible.
*Create cutting edge PHP/MySQL web applications.
*Implement must-have functionality such as blogs, maps, search, and dynamic image galleries.
*Master styling with CSS and dynamic effects using Ajax/JavaScript libraries.
What you¡¯ll learn
*How to set up the perfect PHP/MySQL application development environment
*How to implement basic user management functionality
*How to effectively make use of Prototype and script.aculo.us, and other JavaScript libraries
*How to effectively style a dynamic application using CSS
*How to create a basic blog system and enhance it with Ajax
*How to add personalized user areas to your web application
*How to create a dynamic image gallery
*How to add search functionality to your application
*How to use mapping APIs to add maps to your application
*How to use measure subject popularity using tagging and then use those tag statistics to create graphs and more

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PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax

This practical book for PHP/Oracle developers is built around well explained, easy-to-follow example code to build robust, efficient, secure solutions covering popular current topics on using PHP with Oracle. Assuming no special skill level, experienced author Yuli Vasiliev shows how to install and configure PHP and Oracle; connect PHP to Oracle; move application business logic to Oracle; build transactional applications; use security features; improve performance with caching; employ XML features; implement SOAP web services; build Ajax-driven PHP/Oracle solutions. Building and deploying PHP applications on Oracle Database combines the power and robustness of Oracle with the easy, rapid development of open-source PHP to achieve high-performance, scalable, reliable data-driven web applications with minimal effort. Unlike some other databases, Oracle allows building the key business logic of PHP applications inside the database, moving data processing from web server to database server

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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

It hasn't taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there's no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. This guide is indispensable for intermediate- to advanced level Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest versions of both technologies: PHP 6 (due out in 2008) and MySQL 5 (available now). The book's publication date is likely to beat the official release of PHP 6, making it one of the first books available on the subject.

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No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP

A practical and concise book that teaches XML from the ground up. This tutorial style presents various XML methodologies and techniques in an easy to understand way, building a basis for further exploration.
XML is essentially an enabling technology, dry and boring on its own. As a result, most books on the market are dry, and academic in nature teaching theory rather than practice. This book actually teaches practical, real-world applications of XML, using the very latest version of PHP (PHP 5) as the base language.
No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP explains how XML can be put to use in real-world projects. The book also covers buzz topics such as RSS and Web Services.

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Learning Joomla! Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP

If
you're a PHP programmer eager to create extensions for Joomla!, this
book is for you. Written for Joomla! 1.5, it gets you coding your first
extensions as quickly as possible, and adds features that will make
your work look professional! The world's hottest open-source content
management system, Joomla! won the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. Already
feature packed, it is also extremely extensible, allowing multiple
complex applications to be cleanly integrated, inheriting the look and
feel of one Joomla! site, with only one database, template, and core to
maintain. This practical tutorial is based around the development of
example extensions to create, find, promote, and cross-link restaurant
reviews. Each chapter is a step-by-step walkthrough, covering modules,
components, and plugins as well as configuration and packaging for
distribution. Readers need basic PHP skills and familiarity with the
general operation of Joomla! but do not need experience of developing
Joomla! extensions.

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Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer's Guide to SEO

Search
engine optimization (SEO) is not only the job of the marketing
department. It must be considered from a web site's inception and
throughout its lifetime by you, the web site developer. Making changes
to the architecture of a web site and modifying presentation techniques
can dramatically increase search engine rankings and traffic levels.
Written
for the PHP developer or tech-savvy marketer, this unique reference
provides techniques for creating and maintaining web sites optimized
for search engines. You'll discover how to facilitate the indexing of
your site, as well as how to leverage specific technologies and
services for site promotion. You will understand the role of web site
architecture in search engine optimization and explore various topics
therein. Knowing this will help you to develop a site that achieves
great search engine rankings. Finally, you'll apply this knowledge by
creating a sample e-commerce catalog and an optimized WordPress blog.

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