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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.

Download: PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites 3.83 Mb

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.

Download: Pro PHP Security 7.98 Mb

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.

Download: PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach 4.79 Mb

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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The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition

The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition by Michael Kofler
Publisher: Apress; 3rd edition (September 23, 2005)
784 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1590595351

The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition is the latest revision to Michael Kofler?????s popular comprehensive book on the world?????s most popular open source database server. Updated to reflect the changes in MySQL version 5, the most significant update in the product?????s history, readers are exposed to MySQL?????s impressive array of new features including views, stored procedures, triggers, spatial data types, and more. Novice and intermediate users alike will benefit from extensive coverage of core MySQL features such as user administration, basic and advanced querying, and security. Readers are also introduced to several standard and third-party tools such as the MySQL Administrator, Query Browser, and popular PHPMyAdmin tool. Acknowledging MySQLs huge popularity when used in conjunction with APIs, Michael devotes substantial coverage talking to MySQL via languages like PHP, Perl, Java, C, and C#.

Download: The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition 9.53 Mb

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional by Magnus Lie Hetland
Publisher: Apress (September 26, 2005)
640 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 159059519X

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Based on Practical Python, this newly revised book is both an introduction and practical reference for a swath of Python-related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web services. Advanced topics, such as extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also covered. Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games. Author Magnus Lie Hetland is an authority on Python and previously authored Practical Python. He also authored the popular online guide, Instant Python Hacking, on which both books are based.

Download: Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional 6.22 Mb

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML (Programmer to Programmer)

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML (Programmer to Programmer) by Thiru Thangarathinam
Publisher: Wrox (January 18, 2006)
600 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0764596772

The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0 Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data, XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services. You?????ll also learn more about SQL Server 2005 XML features, XML serialization, and XML Web services. You?????ll see how XML can be used to increase application efficiency and reach. Two helpful real-life case studies used throughout the book demonstrate the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET.

What you will learn from this book

* How to read and write XML data
* Advanced Web service concepts such as SOAP headers and extensions
* Using XmlSerializer to serialize XML documents as XML data
* Techniques to build programs or scripts that create, read, and update settings in web.config and machine.config files
* How to create an XSD schema in Visual Studio??? 2005
* Tips on working with typed and untyped data type columns
* How to get a head start with Microsoft?????s new ???Atlas??? Ajax technology for ASP.NET and XML

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate to experienced programmers who are already familiar with XML and want to gain a clear understanding of ASP.NET development. Some basic knowledge of C# is necessary.

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.

Download: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML (Programmer to Programmer) 5.03 Mb

Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 by John Paul Mueller
Publisher: Sybex (December 5, 2005)
848 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 078214439X

For large-scale web application development, Visual Studio 2005 is the most capable product around. This book shows team members and leaders how to use its power in several key dimensions. You?????ll master dozens of built-in features for creating a large, high-performance website based on ASP.NET 2.0. You?????ll work seamlessly with dynamic data, both reading from and writing to databases. And throughout, you?????ll learn how Visual Studio 2005 supports a more efficient group process in terms of design, development, and deployment. And everything is brought together with the enterprise-scale example, ???ABC Incorporated,??? that runs throughout the book. This is a book no web developer, and no web-dependent organization, should be without.

Coverage Includes

* Reaping the benefits of master pages and themes
* Generating site maps and other navigational aids automatically
* Building a shopping cart application for your website
* Adding search functionality to your website
* Creating a flexible user environment using Webpart technology
* Increasing application performance using client-side and server-side scripting technologies
* Giving users the ability to change the website?????s theme to meet specific needs
* Using components and controls to add special effects and user customization
* Improving team efficiency using modern development and design techniques
* Monitoring and responding to usage statistics
* Combining technologies to get the best possible results from large applications
* Making your site accessible to everyone

Master Standards-Based Web Development Techniques New to Visual Studio 2005. Discover How Visual Studio 2005 Solves Team Development Issues, Such as Source Code Control and Application Design. Simplify Database Application Development without Compromising Security or Reliability.

Download: Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 14.76 Mb

Beginning Object-Oriented ASP.NET 2.0 with VB .NET: From Novice to Professional

Beginning Object-Oriented ASP.NET 2.0 with VB .NET: From Novice to Professional by Brian Myers
Publisher: Apress (September 19, 2005)
216 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1590595386

Will help developers from a mainframe environment transition to the OOP world. This book will have you writing ASP.NET web sites based on OOP concepts in no time!

Download: Beginning Object-Oriented ASP.NET 2.0 with VB .NET: From Novice to Professional 3.82 Mb