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Professional LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP Web Development

Professional LAMP : Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP Web Development
by Jason Gerner, Morgan Owens, Elizabeth Naramore, Jeremy Stolz
Publisher: Wrox (December 5, 2005)
408 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 076459723X

Jason Gerner currently spends his days working as a web developer in Cincinnati and burns free time complaining about lack of support for web standards and abusing XML. He can often be found lurking in the PHPBuilder.com discussion forums, where he is a moderator.

Elizabeth Naramore earned her B.S. in Organizational Behavior from Miami University (Ohio) and has been developing websites since 1997. Her main focus has been on PHP/MySQL, e-commerce, and freelance writing and teaching. Her writing can be seen in PHPBuilder.com and International PHP Magazine. She is a proud member of OINK-PUG (Ohio, Indiana, Northern Kentucky PHP Users Group) and she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two small children. After graduating from the University of Auckland with a mathematics degree no one was interested in,

Morgan L. Owens knocked around the IT industry, becoming a backend web developer and programmer for web-based applications for both intranet and Internet environments. He still lives in Auckland but suggests that for the right career he might?????might?????consider moving.

Matt Warden has been developing web-based applications for over six years. His work has primarily focused on designing and implementing LAMP applications for other businesses to use internally to increase productivity. Recently, Matt has been using AJAX to offer a web-based alternative to productivity gains typically only available with native desktop solutions. Currently, Matt is a lead developer at Signal US Communications in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites

PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites by Jack Herrington
Publisher: O?????Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (December 12, 2005)
468 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0596101392

Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft?????s ASP .NET technology in popularity. Not surprisingly, this surge in usage has resulted in a number of PHP books hitting the market. Only one, though, takes the language beyond traditional Web programming and into mapping, graphing, multimedia, and beyond: PHP Hacks.

In PHP Hacks, author Jack Herrington wrings out his 20 years of code generation experience to deliver hands-on tools ranging from basic PHP and PEAR installation and scripting to advanced multimedia and database optimizing tricks.

On the practical side of things, PHP Hacks helps you develop more robust PHP applications by explaining how to improve your database design, automate application testing, and employ design patterns in your PHP scripts and classes. In the category of ???cool,??? Herrington explains how to upgrade your Web interface through the creation of tabs, stickies, popups, and calendars. He even examines how to leverage maps and graphics in PHP. There?????s also a bounty of image and application hacks, including those that show you how to:

* Integrate web sites with Google maps and satellite imaging
* Dynamically display iPhoto libraries online
* Add IRC, SMS, and Instant Messaging capabilities to your Web applications
* Drop the latest Wikipedia dictionary onto your Sony PSP
* Render graphics and user interfaces with SVG, DHTML, and Ajax

Whether you?????re a newcomer or an expert, you?????ll find great value in PHP Hacks, the only PHP guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone.

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Pro PHP Security

Pro PHP Security by Chris Snyder, Michael Southwell
Publisher: Apress (August 29, 2005)
528 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1590595084

Pro PHP Security is one of the first books devoted solely to PHP security. It will serve as your complete guide for taking defensive and proactive security measures within your PHP applications. (And the methods discussed are compatible with PHP versions 3, 4, and 5.)

The knowledge you?????ll gain from this comprehensive guide will help you prevent attackers from potentially disrupting site operation or destroying data. And you?????ll learn about various security measures, for example, creating and deploying ???captchas,??? validating e-mail, fending off SQL injection attacks, and preventing cross-site scripting attempts.

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PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Lee Babin, Nathan A. Good, Frank M. Kromann, Jon Stephens
Publisher: Apress (September 23, 2005)
672 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1590595092

What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 5 needs. We have written PHP 5 Recipes with a number of purposes in mind. First, this book is a source of instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can just copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time. Second, this book is a useful reference to the most important aspects of the PHP 5 language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in PHP 5. Finally, this book explains the new PHP 5 functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQLi database extension.

We are confident PHP 5 Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your PHP journey, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them.

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php|architect?????s Guide to PHP Security

php|architect?????s Guide to PHP Security| by Ilia Alshanetsky, Rasmus Lerdorf
Publisher: Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. (September 30, 2005)
200 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0973862106

Security is a hot topic these days, with new exploits and patches released on a daily basis for all sorts of operating systems and applications. Recently, the security bubble has expanded to touch the PHP world, and several well-known applications have been the target of a great number of attacks. Despite all the negative publicity, however, PHP is and remains a very stable?????and very secure?????programming environment. php|architect?????s Guide to PHP Security, written by security expert (and frequent php|architect contributor) Ilia Alshanetsky, provides you with a guide that covers everything you need to secure existing PHP applications and write new ones with security in mind.

* Provides techniques for both PHP 4 and PHP 5
* Includes a step-by-step guide to securing your applications
* Provides comprehensive coverage of security design
* Teaches you how to defend yourself from hackers
* Shows you how to distract hackers with a ???tar pit??? to help you fend off potential attacks

Rather than drowning you in overlong explanations, this book focuses on providing you with accurate information on proper security techniques, and showing you a step-by-step approach to writing applications that are stable, secure and reliable.

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