By William Steinmetz, Brian Ward
February 2008
Publisher: No Starch Press
Pages: 216
ISBN 10: 1-59327-173-5 |
ISBN 13: 9781593271732
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Practical and fun PHP scripts that solve real Web programming problems
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Instead of starting at "Hello World," Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you're familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly wished for PHP scripts-you'll work your way through smart configuration options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex database-backed scripts.
Wicked Cool PHP contains a wide variety of scripts to process credit cards, check the validity of email addresses, template HTML, and serve dynamic images and text. The 76 easily implemented scripts will also teach you how to:
But it's not all fun and games: Security is a big concern when programming any web application. So you'll learn how to encrypt your confidential data, safeguard your passwords, and prevent common cross-site-scripting attacks. And you'll learn how to customize all of the scripts to fit your own needs.
Dynamic Web content doesn't have to be difficult. Learn the secrets of the craft from two experienced PHP developers with Wicked Cool PHP.
Featured customer reviews
I like to recommend this book to new and enthusiastic PHP coders, August 12 2008
PHP is a widely used server side scripting language used for producing dynamic web pages. In the PHP development lifecycle everyone face some common problem and considering this No Starch Press come with a good book "Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems" written by William Steinmetz with Brian Ward.
Wicked Cool PHP is a wide-ranging collection of complete PHP scripts that solve specific problems frequently encountered by PHP coders. Book contains 12 chapters covering 76 frequently encountered problems.
Conclusion:
PHP is popular web development language. Also Lots of Tips n tracks, FAQ's and tutorials available freely on web. But they are scattered and very difficult to choose a right solution among them. While during development stage, time is an important factor and this book is a handy solution on the problems commonly faced by every programmer during there PHP development experience.
I like to recommend this book to new and enthusiastic PHP coders
Media reviews
"No Starch gets 'it' when it comes to what geeks want and PHPites, you will WANT this book!"
-- Daniel McKinnon, Amazon.com
"From scripts to process credit cards, template HTML and serve dynamic images to tracking visitors with cookies and editing images and text, Wicked Cool PHP is packed with tips and comes from two experienced PHP developers: perfect for any computer collection catering to PHP users."
-- James Cox, California Bookwatch: The Computer Shelf
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