As Web sites and intranets become larger and more complex, static HTML files hit their limits. They are hard to maintain and cannot be used for advanced Web-based applications like e-commerce systems or XML data processing. PHP is the right tool for anyone wanting to create highly sophisticated Web applications. This server-side scripting language is easy to use for novice Web developers. This book teaches students the advanced aspects of Web application development. They will learn how to write applications that provide real value, how to connect databases to the Web, use XML to layout data and make large Web sites easier to maintain. In the first part of Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 the authors explain PHP's advanced syntax like classes, recursive functions and variable variables. They present software development methodologies and coding conventions which are a must-know for industry quality products as well as to help making development faster and more productive. This part also covers many standard algorithms for tree-structures, string sorting and searching. Part two focuses on the concept of Web applications (as opposed to single scripts) and gives insight into user and session management, e-commerce systems, XML applications and WDDX. The third part of the book is for students who need to take PHP to the limit: it covers extending PHP with C functions, shows PHP4's great new features and tools, such as the debugger and optimizing compiler.

I. ADVANCED PHP.

II. WEB APPLICATIONS.

III. BEYOND PHP.

PHP  [PTG: NEW RIDERS]   (Computer Science)

Till Gerken is a developer with over 10 years of experience in C programming. He has a strong background in creating high-performance multimedia systems and other medium to large scale, high performance projects. He currently works as freelancer for different companies. Tobias Ratschiller is a New Media Consultant in Italy, specializing in the creation of large scale dynamic Web sites. He has provided consulting and implementation work for some of the world¿s largest Web sites and has contributed to several other PHP titles. Apart from that, he teaches at seminars about usability, user interface design and content management systems. He runs http://phpwizard.net. Both authors have published Open Source PHP projects and technical articles for magazines like Internet World.

As Web sites and intranets become larger and more complex, static HTML files hit their limits. In the first part of Web Application Development with PHP the authors explain PHP's advanced syntax like classes, recursive functions and variables. They present software development methodologies and coding conventions which are a must-know for industry quality products as well as to help making develop faster and more productive. This part covers also many standard algorithms for tree-structures, string sorting and searching. Part Two focuses on the concept of Web Applications (as opposed to single scripts) and gives much insight into user and session management, e-commerce systems, XML applications and WDDX.

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