Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; Pap/Cdr edition (November 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132239973

“Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jono's commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you ‘hide behind the couch.

From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL…

Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications!

Suddenly, 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 all 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.

Working from complete examples on the CD-ROM, you'll create

Generic dynamic Web sites

• Blogs

• Discussion forums

Shopping carts

Auction sites

Calendars

FAQ systems

Reusable components

• Content management systems

News sites

JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntu's sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co-authored Linux

Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an O'Reilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co-founder of LUGRadio–a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.

CD-ROM Includes

• XAMPP for Linux: easy-to-install, preconfigured Apache distributions containing MySQL, PHP, Perl, and more

• Source code for all eight fully-working applications discussed in the book

A remastered Ubuntu live CD, set to run all eight applications live

System Requirements

• CPU: Pentium III, 650 MHz. RAM: 256MB (recommended 512MB).

• Hard disk: No space required to run live CD; 250MB of space needed to put XAMPP server and projects on installed system.

Contents

Foreword xi

About the Author xii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 A New Approach 5

Chapter 2 Getting Started with PHP and MySQL 15

Chapter 3 Running the Projects 53

Chapter 4 Building a Weblog 63

Chapter 5 Discussion Forums 111

Chapter 6 Creating a Shopping Cart 169

Chapter 7 Building an Online Auction Site 219

Chapter 8 Creating a Web-Based Calendar 265

Chapter 9 FAQ Content Management System 303

Chapter 10 Building a Re-Usable Project 379

Chapter 11 Building a News Web Site 425

Appendix A Web Site Design 469

Index 499

About the Author

Jono Bacon works for Canonical as the Ubuntu community manager and is an established speaker, author, and regular contributor to the Open Source community. As an author, Bacon co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks and the Official Ubuntu Book, and has written more than 400 published articles in more than 14 publications. Bacon has also contributed as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus, and is an O'Reilly Network weblog author.

In addition, Bacon is a regular contributor to Open Source in a range of projects, a lead developer on the Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project, and one of the co-founders of the popular LUGRadio (www.lugradio.org) podcast'a show with more than 15,000 listeners and an annual event that pulls visitors from around the world.

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Foundations of PEAR: Rapid PHP Development

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Apress (November 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597397

PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, is a bountiful resource for any PHP developer. Within its confines lie the tools that you need to do your job more quickly and efficiently. You need to be able to quickly assess and determine which PEAR package is the right one for the task you are up against. Then you need to know the API and see some examples of how to best use it. Foundations of PEAR is your one stop for locating the PEAR package you need. Authors Nathan Good and Allan Kent have carefully selected the most useful and widely used packages for this book.

Each package is broken down logically by function, and each one is covered in detail. The book presents each package in a manner that allows you to jump quickly to the key items you need to implement a solution. The authors understand that you need to see the packages in actioneach performing in real-world applications. So theyve included four projects in the book that each use a combination of PEAR packages in their implementations. Once youre armed with the knowledge in this book, youll be set to take your PHP development to a new level.

About the Author
Nathan A. Good lives in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. He is a contractor with Alliance of Computer Professionals in Bloomington. When he isn’t writing software, Nathan enjoys building PCs and servers, reading about and working with new technologies, and trying to get all his friends to make the move to open source software. When he’s not at a computer (which he admits is not often), he spends time with his family, at his church, and at the movies. Allan Kent is a born and bred South African and still lives and works in Cape Town. He has been programming in various languages and on diverse platforms for more than 20 years. He’s currently the head of technology at Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town.Download:

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Foundation PHP 5 for Flash

• Paperback: 684 pages
• Publisher: friends of ED; 1 edition (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590594665

David Powers has been professionally involved with the electronic media for some 30 years, mostly in radio and television he was BBC Tokyo correspondent in the late 1980s and early 1990s—but more recently with the Internet. He built his first site in 1995, and was instantly hooked. Eventually, the sheer tedium of updating content convinced him there must be a better way. After a brief flirtation with ASP, he experimented with PHP, and found himself hooked yet again.

A fluent Japanese speaker, Powers specializes in building Japanese-English bilingual websites, writing about Japan, and translating Japanese . He co-authored Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004 (1590593081) and PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004 (1590593502). Powers also worked as technical reviewer on a number of web-related titles for Apress.

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Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Apress (December 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159059648X

The PHP language and PostgreSQL database server have long offered an ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and experienced programmer alike. Yet the continued evolution of both technologies makes them better suited to drive enterprise-class applications than ever before. In Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, noted authors Cristian Darie, Emilian Balanescu, and Mihai Bucica show you how to take advantage of this powerful duo to build an e-commerce web site, guiding you step-by-step through the process of designing and developing the project.

Each chapter is devoted to a specific new feature. You’ll learn how to build an online product catalog complete with pagination features, shopping cart, checkout mechanism, product search feature, product recommendations, administrative features, customer accounts, an order-management system, and more. You’ll also learn how to process electronic payments by integrating several popular payment services, including PayPal, DataCash, and Authorize.net, and how to integrate the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS).

The book promotes good programming practices, including the separation of presentation code, business code, and data access code using a 3-tier architecture. PDO (PHP Data Objects) is used to connect to the database, and PostgreSQL functions are used to store the data logic. The Smarty templating engine is used to create the presentation layer. For a preview of what this book will teach you, take a look at the HatShop shopping cart demo.

Who This Book Is For

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is aimed at developers looking for a tutorial approach to building a full e-commerce web site from design to deployment. However, its assumed that you have mastered the basics of PHP and have some experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).

About the Author
Emilian Balanescu is a programmer experienced in many technologies, such as PHP, Java, .NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS SQL Server. He currently works as a Wireless Network Administrator at accessNET International S.A. Romania, a company that provides fixed wireless access services operating a point-to-multipoint digital radio communication network with national coverage. You can reach Emilian at www.emilianbalanescu.ro. Mihai Bucica started programming and competing in programming contests (winning many of them), all at age twelve. With a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, Bucica works as an Outsourcing Project Manager for Galaxy Soft SRL. Even after working with a multitude of languages and technologies, Bucica’s programming language of choice remains C++, and he loves the LGPL word. Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies and the author of numerous books, including his popular tutorial, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C#. Cristian is studying distributed application architectures for his PhD and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say “Hi,” you can reach Cristian through his personal web site at http://www.cristiandarie.ro.

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Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (March 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764557440

What is this book about?
PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This book takes you step-by-step through understanding each — using it and combining it with the other two on both Linux and Windows servers.

This book guides you through creating your own sites using the open source AMP model. You discover how to install PHP, Apache, and MySQL. Then you create PHP Web pages, including database management and security. Finally, you discover how to integrate your work with e-commerce and other technologies. By building different types of Web sites, you progress from setting up simple database tables to tapping the full potential of PHP, Apache, and MySQL.

When you’re finished, you will be able to create well-designed, dynamic Web sites using open source tools.

What does this book cover?

Here’s what you will learn from this book:

• How PHP server-side scripting language works for connecting HTML-based Web pages to a backend database
• Syntax, functions, and commands for PHP, Apache, and MySQL
• Methods and techniques for building user-friendly forms
• How to easily store, update, and access information using MySQL
• Ways to allow the user to edit a database
• E-commerce applications using these three technologies
• How to set up user logins, profiles, and personalizations
• Proper protocols for error handling

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners who are new to PHP and who need to learn quickly how to create Web sites using open source tools. Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful but not essential.

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Textpattern Solutions: PHP-Based Content Management Made Easy (Solutions)

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: friends of ED (May 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598326

Textpattern is a powerful, PHP-based content management system that allows you to build pretty much any kind of data-driven website quickly and easily. It is very popular among designers and developers alike, and has an active community of users. Sound good? Well, you’re in luckthe book you’re holding now shows you how to use every aspect of Textpattern to a professional standard. Textpattern (and this book) appeals to two main groups of people: Firstly, the web designer who has mastered the fundamentals of XHTML and CSS and wants to create sites that have fresh and dynamically changing information, but is not familiar with server-side coding and databases. Never fearTextpattern enables you to integrate your XHTML knowledge, inserting dynamic aspects into your already solid site design. Secondly, PHP developers who are looking for a content management system upon which to build additional functionality and want a hand with the design aspects of their site. Again, Textpattern fills in those holes. The book leaves no stone unturned. It starts by introducing you to Textpattern and guiding you through its very simple installation process. After the core features of the administrative interface are explored, the book dives into building sites with TXP, using CSS, articles, forms, pages, and more to create fully customized templates. Development follows next, looking at installing plugins and building your own custom plugins to further enhance your Textpattern-based site. The book concludes with several case studies to provide ideas and inspiration, including a weblog, an e-commerce site, and an online review directory.

In this book you will:

• Learn to develop websites quickly using Textpattern’s intuitive templating language.
• Learn to use Textpattern to build e-commerce websites, including customer feedback and reviews.
• Learn to use Textpattern and web standards to create blogs and community sites with dynamically driven content.
• Learn how to integrate your own style of coding and design with a content management system that catalyses, rather than hinders, your creativity.
• Learn how to use PHP to create Textpattern plugins, adding custom functionality and features to uniquely suit the needs of your website.

Summary of Contents

• PART ONE: GETTING STARTED
  • Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
  • Chapter 2: Installing Textpattern
• PART TWO: THE TEXTPATTERN INTERFACE
  • Chapter 3: Site Administration
  • Chapter 4: Basic Content Manipulation
  • Chapter 5: Presentation
• PART THREE: CUSTOMIZING TEXTPATTERN
  • Chapter 6: The Textpattern Model
  • Chapter 7: Creating the Content: Categories and Articles
  • Chapter 8: Customizing the Presentation: Sections, Pages, Forms, and Style
  • Chapter 9: Tying Content and Structure Together
  • Chapter 10: Comments
  • Chapter 11: Beyond the Basics
• PART FOUR: EXTENDING TEXTPATTERN
  • Chapter 12: Custom Fields
  • Chapter 13: Using Plugins
  • Chapter 14: Writing Plugins
• PART FIVE: TEXTPATTERN SITE EXAMPLES
  • Chapter 15: Multiauthor Weblog
  • Chapter 16: Case Study: PopularWeddingFavors.com
  • Chapter 17: Case Study: BoiseCityEats.com
• PART SIX: APPENDIXES
  • Appendix A: Tag Reference
  • Appendix B: Plugin Developer Resources

About the Author
Kevin has been working on the web for almost ten years, having started his career designing his first employer\’s website with Netscape and Notepad. He has spent the bulk of his design career working in-house as both a graphic designer and internal web developer. Coupled with years of freelance and agency work, Kevin has created dozens of websites for businesses of all sizes in an array of industries. Robert has over 10 years of experience designing and developing web-based applications for small businesses up to Fortune 50 companies. From its early gamma releases, Rob recognized the power and flexibility of Textpattern. He has published over 20 Textpattern plugins and numerous tutorials. He also provides custom software development services using Textpattern as a development framework.

He lives with his wife Joci in Copley, Ohio, which is located between Akron and Cleveland. Rob and Joci love to travel together and continue to find new and exciting places to visit. Rob was born and raised in the Cleveland area and continues to be a painfully dedicated Cleveland sports fan. Nathan Smith is a goofy guy who enjoys practicing and preaching web standards. By day, he works as an Information Architect / Interface Designer at Geniant.com. By night, he is finishing up a Master of Divinity degree via online classes from Asbury Theological Seminary. In 2005, he started Godbit.com as a resource to help the Church better understand how to utilize web standards, and blogs about design semi-regularly at his site SonSpring.com. He has been described by family and friends as mildly amusing, but is really quite dull. Cody is a web producer for a technology company located in Boise, Idaho. When he is not working with client side technologies, Flash or interaction design, he spends time with his wife and son, enjoying a simple lifestyle in the Northwest. Cody has a passion for Christian theology and takes great pleasure in learning and studying God\’s word. His work and ongoing ramblings can be found at codylindley.com Mary Fredborg is a member of the Textpattern development team (team.textpattern.com). For more than ten years she\’s been involved in various aspects of web development and remains keenly interested in learning new methods and technologies, as well as refining her existing knowledge and skills. These days you can often find Mary working on Textpattern itself, creating new plugins for it and providing technical support for users of varying levels of experience. She lives in Alberta, Canada with her amusingly crazy dog, who also happens to think the same of Mary.

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

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (April 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470100923

Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP

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.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the criteria that influence search engine rankings
• Create keyword-rich URLs using PHP, Apache, and mod_rewrite
• Use HTTP Headers to properly indicate the status of web documents
• Create optimized content and cope with duplicate content effectively
• Avoid being the victim of black hat SEO techniques
• Understand and implement geo-targeting and cloaking
• Use site maps effectively—for users as well as search engines
• Create a search engine–friendly WordPress blog
• Build a search engine–friendly e-commerce catalog

Who this book is for

This book is for PHP developers who need to incorporate search engine optimization principles into their web applications, as well as marketers who want to gain a better understanding of the technologies involved in search engine marketing.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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