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The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition

“A comprehensive collection of ready-to-use PHP solutions!”

• Over 100 easy-to understand PHP tips, tricks and hacks.
• Save hours of time with "copy and paste" ready code.
• All solutions are fully explained by five PHP gurus.
• Learn the very latest object oriented PHP techniques.
• And so much more…

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Overview

The reason over 20 million PHP based web sites exist today is that, when it comes to building data-driven web sites, getting started with PHP is extremely simple.

But the time will come where you need to dive into more complex solutions and that's when the fun really starts...

Enter, The PHP Anthology a book that proves that you don’t need a computer science degree to take advantage of the powerful features of PHP 5. 

Save time, and eliminate the frustration of completing PHP tasks, with this comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions. If you’re building web applications with PHP you’ll never let this book out of your sight!

Who are the Authors?

Full Author Profiles

What Will You Learn?

Among its many treasures this book will show you how to:

• Manage errors gracefully.
• Build functional forms, tables, and SEO-friendly URLs.
• Reduce load time with client-and server-side caching.
• Produce and utilize web services with XML.
• Secure your site using access control systems.
• Easily work with files, emails, and images.
• And much more... Too much to mention here!

What’s Inside?

Each chapter of this book is laid out in a problem–solution format. We’ll start with a common PHP problem that you may face, and then provide a concise solution to that problem. In some cases, when the topic warrants it, we’ll give you a brief discussion of the solution to provide context.

The chapters are grouped to cover the major areas of PHP. Inside, you’ll find solutions to the most common challenges that PHP developers face.

• Chapter 1: Introduction

  A run-down of PHP’s class syntax, as well as a primer that explains how all the key elements of the object oriented paradigm apply to PHP are included in this chapter.

• Chapter 2: Using Databases with PDO

  Everything you’ll need to get up to speed with the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension is covered here.

• Chapter 3: Strings

  String functions you can’t live without, along with an exploration of the processes for validating and filtering user-submitted content are the topics of this chapter.

• Chapter 4: Dates and Times

  Use PHP’s date functions, and implement an online calendar. You’ll also obtain a solid grounding in the storage and manipulation of dates in MySQL.

• Chapter 5: Forms, Tables, and Pretty URLs

  The essentials of web page forms and tables are covered here as is the process for developing forms with PEAR::HTML_QuickForm.

• Chapter 6: Working with Files

  This survival guide to working with files in PHP shows how to create your own zipped archives with PEAR::Archive_Tar, and explains the use of the Standard PHP Library.

• Chapter 7: Email

  Deal specifically with email-related solutions as this chapter shows you how to take full advantage of email with PHP.

• Chapter 8: Images

  Watermark images on your site, prevent hotlinking from other sites, create an image gallery complete with Exif data, and produce a few professional charts and graphs—as well as CAPTCHA images—with JpGraph.

• Chapter 9: Error Handling

  Understand PHP’s error reporting mechanism, and learn how to take advantage of PHP’s custom error handling features.

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Who Should Read This Book?

If you’ve already gotten your feet wet with PHP — perhaps having read Kevin Yank’s Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL, 3rd Edition and completed your first project or two with PHP —then this is the book for you.

If you’ve been asking questions like "How do I validate a web page form?”, “How do I add a watermark to my photos?”, and “How do I send automated email messages from my web application?”, you’ll find the answers in this book.

If you have the drive to progress your skills and improve your web application through concepts such as reusable components, caching performance, or web services, then you'll find this book to be an excellent primer.

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