PHP 5.1 for Beginners (X-Team)

The book has been written to provide genuine domain knowledge to programmers who wish to learn web based, application development, using object oriented PHP 5.1 as the programming environment. IIS and Apache as the web servers of choice with a clutch of DBMS as the data store underlay for the applications developed. All run on M.S. Windows and Linux. These are today's programming environments of choice. Topics: Setting up the FrameworkInstallation Of Web ServersInstallation Of PHPTesting The FrameworkThe Fundamentals Of PHPBasics, conditional statements and Iterations, User-defined and Built-in Functions working with Web Pages, Debugging, Error Handling and Regular Expressions database driven programmingMySQLMySQLiOracleSQLiteODBCObject Oriented ProgrammingAdvanced TechniquesBlogsforumsCookiesSessionsSimpleXMLforms On The FlyPHP 5.1 Data Objects (PDO) asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)PHP frameworksPHP rapid application Development Object-oriented (PRADO)PHP Extension and Application Repository(PEAR::DB)Content Management SystemJoomla! Integrated Development EnvironmentPHP Designer 2005 contents of the CD-ROMSetup Files To Build The Runtime Programming Environment Source Code for Every Example In This Book solutions to Hands on Exercises and ampltAbout the AuthorsThe Authors Ivan Bayrossan M. Tech in DBMS from Manchester University UK and Mr. Sharanam Shaha Post Graduate from C-DAC and Sr. Project Leader work very well together. One proving a perfect foil for the other. The pair of them make quite a formidable team in multi-tier, client / server, application development. In this book they share their many man-years of development experience, using a simple to follow, hands on kind of approach.