Synopses & Reviews
Installed on more than 19 million domains (http: //www.php.net/usage.php), PHP is by far the world's most popular Web scripting language. Its popularity is such that it's practically a default offering on shared host Web hosting providers around the globe. And with the forthcoming PHP 6 release, popularity is sure to increase even further as the language's advanced features continue to catch the eye of enterprise developers.
Pro PHP presents experienced developers with a thorough guide to the language's key advanced features, focusing on both recent and emerging features and development trends. Among the topics covered in the book are software development patterns, the Standard PHP Library, the MVC software architecture as applied to PHP with special emphasis on the Zend Framework, and Ajax and Web services.
Synopsis
Taking care to focus solely on those topics that will have the most impact on experienced PHP developers, Pro PHP is written for readers seeking to take their understanding of both PHP and sound software development practices to the next level. Advanced object?oriented features, documentation, debugging, software patterns, and the Standard PHP Library are just a few of the topics covered in extensive detail.
Author and noted PHP expert Kevin McArthur also examines emerging practices and trends such as the MVC architecture as applied to PHP, with special emphasis placed upon the increasingly popular Zend Framework.
With Ajax and web services crucial to the success of today's web applications, the book concludes with several chapters covering JSON, the SOAP extension, and advanced web services topics.
If you're seeking to go beyond the basics, Pro PHP is the book for you.
Synopsis
Pro PHP presents experienced developers with a thorough guide to the language's key advanced features, focusing on both recent and emerging features and development trends. Among the topics covered in the book are software development patterns, the Standard PHP Library, the MVC software architecture as applied to PHP with special emphasis on the Zend Framework, and Ajax and Web services.
Synopsis
If you're seeking to go beyond the basics, "Pro PHP" is the book for you.