| Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP (Practical) | 
| Author: Quentin Zervaas
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 15529
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 569
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1590599063
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9781590599068
ASIN: 1590599063
Publication Date: December 20, 2007
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...an instructive and expert demonstration of how to use PHP, MySQL, the Zend Framework, Smarty, Ajax, and other powerful technologies for creating robust Web sites. ? Michael J. Ross, Web developer/Slashdot contributor Want to assert yourself as a cutting?edge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to bring together the many technologies needed to create a successful, modern web application. In Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax development techniques are brought together to show you how to create the hottest PHP web applications, from planning and design up to final implementation, without going over unnecessary basics that will hold you back. This book includes must?have application features such as search functionality, maps, blogs, dynamic image galleries, and personalized user areas. The Zend Framework is used extensively to build the application, allowing you to focus on developing the application rather than on reinventing the wheel. Topics covered include application planning and design; setting up the application framework; using CSS for easier styling; adding dynamic effects the easy way using JavaScript libraries such as Prototype and script.aculo.us; and implementing several must?have web application features such as user login, blogs, dynamic image galleries, search functionality, mapping with Google Maps, and much more. Zervaas covers everything in a practical, tutorial style so you can start working on your own projects as quickly as possible. - Create cutting?edge PHP/MySQL web applications.
- Implement must?have functionality such as blogs, maps, search functionality, and dynamic image galleries.
- Master styling with CSS and dynamic effects using Ajax/JavaScript libraries.
What you?ll learn
- How to set up the perfect PHP/MySQL application development environment
- How to implement basic user management functionality
- How to use many of the components from the Zend Framework
- How to effectively make use of the Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries, including many examples of developing custom JavaScript classes
- How to create standards?compliant and accessible HTML code and effectively style it using CSS
- How to create a basic blog system and enhance it with Ajax
- How to add personalized user areas to your web application
- How to create a dynamic image gallery
- How to add search functionality to your application
- How to use the Google Maps API to add maps to your application
- How to implement popular Web 2.0 features, such as microformats, tags, and web feeds
Who is this book for? This book is for any PHP developer who wants to stay ahead of the curve, with practical, high?level web application development techniques.
About the Apress Practical Series The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project?motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real?world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.
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- Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition
- PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
- Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
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Very practical web development book (making extensive use of Zend Framework) November 25, 2008
I found this book very useful if you want to develop a solid, feature-rich web application. It provides a review of all technologies needed to piece together your own solution, using always components/frameworks that are well entrenched in the development community. Not only you will get an understanding of the back-end architecture(PHP, Zend_Framework, Smarty, MySQL) but you will also get to learn how to tie in your front-end components (Ajax, JavaScript, CSS, JSON) in a seamless application.
I see this book as a very good manual for a CS class in LAMP web development.
Todo lo que necesita un emprendedor web October 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Este libro, es excelente para personas las cuales hemos trabajado mucho con aplicaciones para internet, pero que estamos interesado en el web 2.0, ajax y el mundo del MVC.
Hasta el momento no tengo quejas sobre este libro, y creo que no la tendre, aunque tengo que mencionar, que deberian explicar que el libro hace uso de Zend Framework y que sin el seria dificil aplicar Web 2.0 basandonos en el libro.
CodeIgniter es mi framework para desarrollo, pero ahora que el libro me introduce hacia Zend Framework creo que tengo mas posibilidades, si eres alguien que desea aprender Zend Framework, introducirte en el mundo del web 2.0, creo que este es el libro perfecto.
Outstanding October 4, 2008
This book is outstanding. Not only does it guide you through on building online applications but it also drags you through the Zend PHP framework. I would recommend this book to anyone is going down the path of becoming a fantastic PHP developer. It is a good resource.
 Excellent, but why implement your own Db Table pattern September 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book and I have enjoyed reading it over the past day. For someone trying to piece together the various technologies like Auth, ACL, Config, Logging and Session it's a great resource for the first several chapters, going into detail about the configuration and setup of this simple environment without any of that padding and guff that a lot of other authors include. The book doesn't treat you like an idiot, which I certainly appreciated.
The only issue I would raise is that the Author has used his own classes for database Table access instead of employing the frameworks standard Zend_Db_Table and Zend_Db_Table_Row bases. This means that anyone wanting to adhere closely to the Zend Framework (for corporate reasons) will have to reverse engineer the approaches used. An odd choice for a book almost entirely based on the Zend Framework.
Good book after slow start August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been working with PHP for several years now yet the first part of this book had me pulling my hair out (whats left of it). Setting up the environment is tricky and it probably would of helped me if I had a stronger background in OO programming. With that said, this is a good book and I would recommend it to any intermediate level PHP developer.
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