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This book is a step-by-step, example-driven AJAX tutorial, featuring complete case studies. Each chapter contains a friendly mix of theory and practice, so that your journey through the book will be pleasant, yet efficient. You’ll be coding your first AJAX application at the end of the first chapter, and with each new chapter you’ll develop increasingly complex AJAX applications featuring advanced techniques and coding patterns.AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications, 2nd Edition, is written for PHP developers who: Want to learn how to use PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and jQuery to implement Web 2.0 applications, Are looking for a step-by-step, example-driven AJAX tutorial, Want to learn advanced AJAX coding patterns and techniques and be able to assess the security and SEO implications of their code

You could think of Setting Up LAMP as four books in one, but it's actually something much more valuable: a single volume that presents the open-source technologies known collectively as LAMP—Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP—as tightly dovetailed components of today's most affordable and effective platform for building dynamic web-based applications.

Each technology has uses outside of this context, of course, but within it they form something greater than the sum of their parts. This book shows you how to take full advantage of this power, walking you through all the steps required to lay your Linux foundation, install and configure your Apache web server, and then begin using PHP to access content stored in MySQL. Here are a few of the specific topics you'll find covered inside:

• Installing and configuring qmail with support for IMAP, POP3, SMTP, virtual domains, spam filtering, and antivirus
• Managing system users and groups
• Configuring your network
• Creating a custom firewall script using IP tables
• Recognizing when a system is in distress
• Handling MySQL database replication
• Configuring virtual domains
• Writing a basic PHP script that integrates with MySQL

If you're new to all of this, you'll quickly get to where you need to be to start developing and deploying the higher-level pieces of your web application. Even if you have experience with one or all of these technologies, this book—including its quick-start installation appendix—is a resource you'll want close by whenever you're setting up or fine-tuning your LAMP system.

* Now revised to cover features found in PHP4 and PHP5, this new edition shows Web developers step by step how to create dynamic, data-driven Web applications
* Two-color screen shots accompanied by concise callouts demonstrate how to tackle more than 100 key PHP tasks, including using cookies to monitor the activity of Web site visitors, retrieving information from MySQL or other databases, creating images and Web pages on the fly, and processing XML documents
* Shows how to use PHP with Apache Web server, process data forms, access data files, troubleshoot PHP scripts, and migrate scripts to PHP5
* A companion Web site features a fully searchable e-version of the book, plus all code that appears in the text-ready to plug into users' Web pages

• This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine
• Explores why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL
• Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL
• Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions
• The authors provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience

The book's bottom line is to define a good methodology for creating a web site (with functionality that is used on many different kinds of sites, and that programmers may well be working on in the future) by identifying problems, surmising solutions to those problems, and then implementing those solutions using modern development practices.

This update to a Wrox bestseller dives in and guides the reader through the entire process of creating dynamic, data-driven sites using the open source "AMP" model: Apache Web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors covers PHP scripting, database management, security, integration, and e-commerce functions and comes complete with a useful syntax reference.

• Showcases three fully functional Web site examples, with implementations for both Windows and Linux, that readers can incorporate into their own projects
• Updates include a new chapter on PHP5 features and functions, a new example Web site application, and updates to PHP5 throughout the text

Get past all the hype about PHP and dig into the real power of this language. This book explores the most useful features of PHP and how they can speed up the web development process, and explains why the most commonly used PHP elements are often misused or misapplied. You'll learn which parts add strength to object-oriented programming, and how to use certain features to integrate your application with databases.

Written by a longtime member of the PHP community, PHP: The Good Parts is ideal for new PHP programmers, as well as web developers switching from other languages.

• Become familiar with PHP's basic syntax, variables, and datatypes
• Learn how to integrate the language with web pages
• Understand how to use strings, arrays, and PHP's built-in functions
• Discover the advantages of using PHP as an object-oriented language
• Explore how PHP interacts with databases, such as SQLite and MySQL
• Learn input- and output-handling best practices to prevent security breaches

• Demonstrates Web application development by presenting ten real, ready-to-use examples
• Samples start with a simple guess book and end with a fully-functional e-commerce site with a shopping cart
• New features include both MySQL 4.1 and PHP 4.2
• Latest edition contains new applications including log analysis and project tracking
• CD-ROM includes all the code and examples applications from the book in addition to MySQL, PHP, Apache, PHP classes, libraries, utilities, and other tools

Step-by-step lessons for using PHP and MySQL in a unique book-and-video combination

Assuming no previous experience with PHP or MySQL, this book-and-video package is ideal reading for anyone who wants to go beyond HTML/CSS in order to provide clients with the most dynamic web sites possible. The approachable tone breaks down the basics of programming and PHP and MySQL in individual lessons starting with the installation of the programs necessary to run PHP. You begin with a static web site and then watch and learn as PHP functionality is added as you work through the lessons.

When working with databases, the MySQL database is introduced with demonstrations that show how to interact with it. The accompanying videos enhance your learning experience, as each lesson in the book is portrayed in the video exercises.

Lessons include:
• Getting started with PHP
• Setting up your workspace
• Adding PHP to a web page
• Learning PHP syntax
• Working with variables
• Debugging code
• Working with complex data
• Making decisions
• Repeating program steps
• Learning about scope
• Reusing code with functions
• Creating forms
• Introducing object-oriented programming
• Defining classes
• Using classes
• Using advanced techniques
• Handling errors
• Writing secure code
• Introducing databases
• Introducing MySQL
• Creating and connecting to the
• Creating tables
• Entering data
• Selecting data
• Using multiple tables
• Changing data
• Deleting data
• Preventing database security issues
• Creating user logins
• Turn the case study into a content management system

Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book.

Beginning PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8 is the first and most comprehensive book to delve into the latest versions of two popular open source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. Readers reap the knowledge of these core technologies and gain valuable insight into how they are used in unison to create dynamic data-driven web applications.

This is an ideal guide for the web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to learn how to create applications with PHP 5 and PostgreSQL 8.