Publisher: friends of ED
Author(s): David Powers
Release Date: 19 December 2005


Want to add the power of a database to your websites? Build online forms that send feedback straight to your inbox? Incorporate live news feeds and XML data into your web pages? This book shows you how to do all that and more. Dreamweaver 8 takes a lot of the hard work out of integrating a database into your websites, but it cant do everything. So instead of just giving you a series of instructions to click this and click that, this book helps you understand whats going on in the background. As a result, youre more likely to remember and to get it right. Most books on PHP concentrate on code and throw all design considerations out the window. This one is different. It makes use of Dreamweaver 8s vastly improved CSS rendering, and shows you how to build a site thats smart in both senses of the word. It looks good and is intelligent too. Youll learn how to change the entire look of the site, using PHP to serve up different stylesheets each month. Youll also build a contact form protected against email injection attacks. All of Dreamweavers PHP server behaviors are put through their paces, and youll even make some custom server behaviors that will come in useful on any site you create. Two chapters take you through the setup process with step-by-step instructions for both Windows and Mac OS X, helping you make the right choices: Apache or IIS? Remote or local testing? There are even instructions on how to set up virtual hosts on your own computer. And in the unlikely event that things go wrong, theres plenty of troubleshooting advice too. In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver?s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using PHP and MySQL, the worlds most popular open source server-side language and database server combination, which are both reliable, powerful, and open source (and therefore free to use!) This latest version of Dreamweaver includes more powerful support for PHP and MySQL than ever before, and we?ll show you how to make this work for you. No previous experience of PHP or MySQL is necessary to use this book. Examples built throughout the book include a content management system, and an online image gallery. All examples are designed to meet modern usability requirements and be web standards compliant. Summary of Contents:

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: So, You Want to Build Dynamic Sites?
* Chapter 2: Dreamweaver and PHPA Productive Partnership
* Chapter 3: Getting the Work Environment Ready
* Chapter 4: Getting Ready for the Case Study
* Chapter 5: Integrating PHP into Your Site
* Chapter 6: Getting Feedback from an Online Form
* Chapter 7: Putting the Power of a Database
* Chapter 8: Building a Random Quotation Generator
* Chapter 9: Working with Multiple Tables
* Chapter 10: Using Sessions to Track
* Chapter 11: Displaying a Blog and Photo Gallery
* Chapter 12: Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML
* Appendix A: Using Languages Other Than English in MySQL
* Appendix B: Essential MySQL Maintenance

Publisher: Peachpit Press
Author(s): Larry Ullman
Release Date: 05 March 2007

PHP is currently one of the most popular server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language on the Web. It?s specifically designed for Web site creation and is frequently being used to replace the functionality created by Perl to write CGI scripts. PHP?s popularity and easier-to-learn appeal has spawned a new breed of programmer, those who are only familiar with and only use PHP.

Sharpen your PHP skills with the fully revised and updated, PHP 5 Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide! Filled with fifteen chapters of step-by-step content and written by best-selling author and PHP programmer, Larry Ullman, this guide teaches specific topics in direct, focused segments, shows how PHP is used in real-world applications, features popular and most-asked-about scripts, and details those technologies that will be more important in the future. You?ll learn about object-oriented programming, PHP interactions with a server, XML, RSS, Networking with PHP, image and PDF generation, and more.

Publisher: Apress
Author(s): Cristian Darie
Release Date: 05 December 2006

The PHP language and PostgreSQL database server have long offered an ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and experienced programmer alike. Yet the continued evolution of both technologies makes them better suited to drive enterprise-class applications than ever before. In Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, noted authors Cristian Darie, Emilian Balanescu, and Mihai Bucica show you how to take advantage of this powerful duo to build an e-commerce web site, guiding you step-by-step through the process of designing and developing the project.

Each chapter is devoted to a specific new feature. You?ll learn how to build an online product catalog complete with pagination features, shopping cart, checkout mechanism, product search feature, product recommendations, administrative features, customer accounts, an order-management system, and more. You?ll also learn how to process electronic payments by integrating several popular payment services, including PayPal, DataCash, and Authorize.net, and how to integrate the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS).

The book promotes good programming practices, including the separation of presentation code, business code, and data access code using a 3-tier architecture. PDO (PHP Data Objects) is used to connect to the database, and PostgreSQL functions are used to store the data logic. The Smarty templating engine is used to create the presentation layer. For a preview of what this book will teach you, take a look at the HatShop shopping cart demo.
Who This Book Is For

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is aimed at developers looking for a tutorial approach to building a full e-commerce web site from design to deployment. However, its assumed that you have mastered the basics of PHP and have some experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).

Publisher: Wrox Press
Author(s): Cristian Darie
Release Date: 16 April 2007

Maybe you?re a great programmer or IT professional, but marketing isn?t your thing. Or perhaps you?re a tech-savvy search engine marketer who wants a peek under the hood of a search engine optimized web site. Search engine marketing is a field where technology and marketing are both critical and interdependent, because small changes in the implementation of a web site can make you or break you in search engine rankings. Furthermore, the fusion of technology and marketing know-how can create web site features that attract more visitors.

The mission of this book is to help web developers create web sites that rank well with the major search engines, and to teach search engine marketers how to use technology to their advantage. We assert that neither marketing nor IT can exist in a vacuum, and it is essential that they not see themselves as opposing forces in an organization. They must work together. This book aims to educate both sides in that regard.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is not only the job of the marketing department. It must be considered from a web site?s inception and throughout its lifetime by you, the web site developer. Making changes to the architecture of a web site and modifying presentation techniques can dramatically increase search engine rankings and traffic levels.

Written for the PHP developer or tech-savvy marketer, this unique reference provides techniques for creating and maintaining web sites optimized for search engines. You?ll discover how to facilitate the indexing of your site, as well as how to leverage specific technologies and services for site promotion. You will understand the role of web site architecture in search engine optimization and explore various topics therein. Knowing this will help you to develop a site that achieves great search engine rankings. Finally, you?ll apply this knowledge by creating a sample e-commerce catalog and an optimized WordPress blog.

What you will learn from this book

* Understand the criteria that influence search engine rankings
* Create keyword-rich URLs using PHP, Apache, and mod_rewrite
* Use HTTP Headers to properly indicate the status of web documents
* Create optimized content and cope with duplicate content effectively
* Avoid being the victim of black hat SEO techniques
* Understand and implement geo-targeting and cloaking
* Use site maps effectively?for users as well as search engines
* Create a search engine?friendly WordPress blog
* Build a search engine?friendly e-commerce catalog