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PHP Hacks
By Jack Herrington
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: December 2005
ISBN: 0-596-10139-2
Pages: 468
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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