Pro Php Programming

by Macintyre, Peter; Danchilla, Brian; Gogala, Mladen

• ISBN13: 9781430235606
• ISBN10: 1430235608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-05
• Publisher: Apress

Summary

If you are a web programmer, you need to know modern PHP. This book presents you with many new areas where PHP plays a large role. If you want to write a mobile application using geo-location data,Pro PHP Programmingwill show you how. Additionally, if you need to make sure that you can write a multilingual indexing application using Sphinx, this book will guide you through the pitfalls. Of course,Pro PHP Programminggives a thorough survey of PHP post-5.3. You begin by working through the book via an informative survey and a clear guide to object-oriented PHP. Then you are set for the core of the book on modern PHP applications: you can now start with the chapter on PHP for mobile programming and you should then be able to sample social media applications. You will also be guided through new PHP programming language features like closures and namespaces. Pro PHP Programmingdeals with filtering data from users and databases next, so you are well prepared for relational and NoSQL databases. Of course you can learn about data retrieval#xA0; from other source like OCR libraries or websites. Then the question of how to format and present data and presentation arises, and you will#xA0; get solutions to via JSON, AJAX and XML. What you'll learn PHP 5.3 object oriented programming and new PHP features Writing programs talking to SQL-based and NoSQL-based databases alike Using modern PHP programmer's tools Writing social media applications Investigating NoSQL datastores Writing PHP programs for a Cloud ecology. #xA0; Who this book is for This book is for intermediate and Advanced PHP programmers, as well as programmers coming from other languages, e.g. Python, Perl, C/C++. It can also be utilized by programmers with knowledge of a previous PHP version who want to return to PHP.

Table of Contents

Object Orientation

Exceptions and References

Mobile PHP

Social Media

Cutting Edge

Form Design and Management

Database Interaction I

Database Interaction II

Database Interaction III

Libraries

Security

Agile Development with Zend Studio for Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mylyn, and Subversion

Refactoring, Unit Testing, and Continuous Intergration

XML

JSON and AJAX

Conclusions

Regular Expressions

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