Pro PHP Programming

    # Format : PDF    
    # Paperback: 440 pages
    # Publisher: Apress (August 2011)
    # Language: English
    # ISBN-10: 1430235608
    # ISBN-13: 978-1430235606
 

If you are a web programmer, you need to know modern PHP. This book presents with many new areas in which PHP plays a large role. If you want to write a mobile application using geo-location data, Pro PHP Programming will show you how. Additionally, if you need to make sure that you can write a multilingual indexing application using Sphinx, this book will help you avoid the pitfalls.Of course, Pro PHP Programming gives a thorough survey of PHP post-5.3. YouΓΓé¼Γäóll begin by working through an informative survey and clear guide to object-oriented PHP. Then, youΓΓé¼Γäóll be set for the core of the book on modern PHP applications. Now, youΓΓé¼Γäóll be able to start with the chapter on PHP for mobile programming and move on to sampling social media applications. YouΓΓé¼Γäóll also be guided through new PHP programming language features like closures and namespaces.Pro PHP Programming deals with filtering data from users and databases next, so youΓΓé¼Γäóll be well prepared for relational and NoSQL databases. Of course, you can also learn about data retrieval from other sources, like OCR libraries or websites. Then the question of how to format and present data arises, and in Pro PHP Programming, youΓΓé¼Γäóll find solutions via JSON, AJAX and XML.

What youΓΓé¼Γäóll learn :
    # PHP 5.3 object-oriented programming and new PHP features
    # Writing programs talking to SQL-based and NoSQL-based databases alike
    # Using modern PHP programmerΓΓé¼Γäós tools
    # Writing social media applications
    # Investigating NoSQL datastores
    # Writing PHP programs for a cloud ecology

Who this book is for :
This book is for intermediate and advanced PHP programmers, as well as programmers coming from other languages such as Python, Perl, C/C++. It can also be utilized by programmers with knowledge of a previous PHP version who want to return to PHP.

Table of Contents :
    1.Object Orientation
    2.Exceptions and References
    3.Mobile PHP
    4.Social Media
    5.Cutting Edge
    6.Form Design and Management
    7.Database Interaction I
    8.Database Interaction II
    9.Database Interaction III
    10.Libraries
    11.Security
    12.Agile Development with Zend Studio for Eclipse, Bugzilla, Mylyn, and Subversion
    13.Refactoring, Unit Testing, and Continuous Intergration
    14.XML
    15.JSON and AJAX
    16.Conclusions
    17.Regular Expressions