Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators

ISBN-13: 9781590592809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 347 str.

David Sklar

Opis

THis INTRODUCTION lays out who the book is written for, provides an overview of what is covered, and gives some background details on a package management utility you'll use to install many of the add-ons covered in the book. Who This Book Is For Although PHP has a lot of built-in functionality, many common Web program- ming tasks are simpler with add-on modules and packages. This book is for you if you are looking for an easier way to do these kinds of tasks with PHP: - Access a database. - Generate robust Web forms. - Use a page templating system. - Create or parse XML documents. - Request or serve XML-RPC or SOAP methods. - Send HTML or multipart e-mail messages. - Authenticate users. - Inspect your scripts with a debugger. - Boost server performance without rewriting any code. This book assumes you have a basic knowledge of PHP programming: You know how to perform tasks such as include files, write functions, create objects, and look in $_REQUEST, $_GET, or $_POST to find submitted form data.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This book intends to simplify programming tasks through the use ... . The intended audience is intermediate-to-advanced, although I believe it is also of great use to the uninitiated. The Introduction provides a solid introduction to the use of PEAR ... . The section on databases is required reading for anyone wishing to ... . The Smarty chapter is an excellent introduction into templating ... . Especially enjoyable is the chapter on PEAR's Mail_mime ... . I particularly enjoyed the level of detail given ... ." (Mitchell Pirtle, International PHP Magazine, Issue no. 4, 2004)

Spis treści

1. Accessing Databases with DB
2. Accessing Databases with ADODB
3. Using HTML_QuickForm for Form Processing
4. Templating with Smarty
5. Performing Event-Based XML Parsing with XML_Parser
6. Developing Lightweight Web Services with XML_RPC
7. Developing Heavyweight Web Services with SOAP
8. Performing Easier XML Parsing with SimpleXML
9. Sending Mail 
10. Working with Authentication, Users, and Passwords
11. Understanding PHP Internals
12. Profiling and Debugging with Xdebug
13. Accelerating with Code Caches

O autorze

David Sklar is an instructor at The New School University and an independent technology consultant. He is coauthor of the book PHP Cookbook and the author of the Learning PHP. David has spoken at many conferences, including the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, the EGovOS Open Source/Open Standards Conference, and the International PHP Conference. His consulting practice focuses on interactive Internet applications, distributed systems, scalability, and security. Additionally, David is a principal of the Transparency Project, a nonprofit organization that coordinates data markup standards and builds tools that analyze publicly available political and campaign finance information. David was a founder and the chief technology officer of both Student.Com and TVGrid.Com, where he led teams of PHP developers that built multilingual data-driven web applications. He holds a degree in computer science from Yale University.