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Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 (July 2000)

3/08/2009 02:31:00 PM | PHP - AJAX

Web Application Development with PHP 4.0
by Tobias Ratschiller; Till Gerken; Zeev Suraski; Andi Gutmans
ISBN-10: 0-7357-0997-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-7357-0997-3
English
416 pages
July 12, 2000

Link to Original Publications:
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0735709971

Description
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.

Web Application Development with PHP 4.0 isn't your run-of-the-mill language tutorial. Authors Ratschiller and Gerken purposely designed its content to appeal to coders who already are proficient in PHP, but in need of advanced programming techniques and high-level application-development skills. Assuming a strong programming foundation, this book can be considered a next-level PHP tutorial.

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Beautiful Code (June 2007)

3/04/2009 10:25:00 AM | Programming

Beautiful Code
Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
By Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
ISBN 10: 0-596-51004-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596510046
English
618 pages
June 2007

Link to Original Publications:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046/

Description
How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes.

This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as they work through their project's architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to break rules. Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.

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Drupal 5 Themes (Dec 2007)

3/04/2009 10:18:00 AM | Drupal

Drupal 5 Themes
By Ric Shreves
ISBN 1847191827
ISBN 13 978-1-847191-82-3
English
250 pages
December 2007

Link to Original Publications:
http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-5-themes/book

Description
This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource even to experienced theme developers.

It covers:
• Finding your way around Drupal 5's theming architecture
• Locating and identifying the various elements, functions, and styles
• Working with the PHPTemplate templating engine
• Intercepting and overriding default templates and styles

The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity! Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 5 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.

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WordPress Theme Design (May 2008)

3/04/2009 10:11:00 AM | WordPress

WordPress Theme Design
By Tessa Blakeley Silver
ISBN 1847193099
ISBN 13 978-1-847193-09-4
English
211 pages
May 2008

Link to Original Publications:
http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-theme-design/book

Description
This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.

Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site's design and branding.

What you will learn from this book
• Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
• Create detailed designs and code them up
• Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
• Debug and validate your theme using W3C's XHTML and CSS validation tools
• Customize and tweak your theme's layout
• Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
• Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
• Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
• Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
• Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0's template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

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CakePHP Application Development (July 2008)

3/04/2009 09:59:00 AM | CakePHP

CakePHP Application Development
Anupom Syam, Ahsanul Bari
ISBN 1847193897
ISBN 13 978-1-847193-89-6
English
311 pages
July 2008

Link to Original Publications:
http://www.packtpub.com/cakephp-application-development/book

Description
Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP that uses well-known design patterns and provides a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss of flexibility. It means you can code faster, your code is better, and it makes writing Web 2.0-style apps a snap.

This book offers step-by-step instructions to learn the CakePHP framework and to quickly develop and deploy web-based applications. It introduces the MVC pattern and coding styles using practical examples. It takes the developer through setting up a CakePHP development and deployment environment, and develops an example application to illustrate all of the techniques you need to write a complete, non-trivial application in PHP. It aims to assist PHP programmers to rapidly develop and deploy well-crafted and robust web-based applications with CakePHP.

What you will learn from this book
• Develop well-structured applications faster, using CakePHP's MVC
• Install and set up CakePHP
• Create and configure your database to build a bookmark manager interface step by step
• Build a model that that integrates with your database and provides basic features to your application: inserts, updates, deletes, searches, and relationships
• Create views that present the user interface in an attractive, organized, and maintainable way
• Develop controllers to interact with model classes, use callback functions, and create reusable components
• Prototype applications fast using scaffolding to auto-generate user interface code
• Create custom user interfaces using layouts, elements, helper classes, and CakePHP's FormHelper
• Build complex data models with multiple related tables, using Cake associations
• Enhance your data models by adding new functionalities like user authentication and data validation
• Automate repetitive tasks and speed up development using shells
• Reduce the amount of code you write yourself using Bake to automatically generate essential code based on your database design
• Add interactivity using JavaScript and AJAX
• Work with user pages, search, pagination, and RSS

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