PHP Hacks Tips and Tools for Creating Dynamic Websites

Name: PHP Hacks Tips and Tools for Creating Dynamic Websites
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ISBN: 9780596101398

ISBN-10: 0596101392

ISBN-13: 9780596101398

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jack D. Herrington

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Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP.NET technology in popularity. Not surprisingly, this surge in usage has resulted in a number of PHP books hitting the market. Only one, though, takes the language beyond traditional Web programming and into mapping, graphing, multimedia, and beyond: "PHP Hacks. In "PHP Hacks, author Jack Herrington wrings out his 20 years of code generation experience to deliver hands-on tools ranging from basic PHP and Pear…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Jack Herrington is an engineer, author and presenter who lives and works in the Bay Area. His mission is to expose his fellow engineers to new technologies. That covers a broad spectrum, from demonstrating programs that write other programs in the book Code Generation in Action. Providing techniques for building customer centered web sites in PHP Hacks. All the way writing a how-to on audio blogging called Podcasting Hacks. All of which make great holiday gifts and are available online here, and at your local bookstore. Jack also writes articles for O'Reilly, DevX and IBM Developerworks. Jack lives with his wife, daughter and two adopted dogs. When he is not writing software, books or…



Credits


Preface



Installation and Basics



Install PHP



Install PEAR Modules



Web Design



Create a Skinnable Interface



Build a Breadcrumb Trail



Create HTML Boxes



Add Tabs to Your Web Interface



Give Your Customers Formatting Control with XSL



Build Lightweight HTML Graphs



Properly Size Image Tags



Send HTML Email



DHTML



Put an Interactive Spreadsheet on Your Page



Create Pop-Up Hints



Create Drag-and-Drop Lists



Build Dynamic HTML Graphs



Section Your Content with Spinners



Create Drop-Down Stickies



Create Dynamic Navigation Menus



Obscure JavaScript Dynamically



Build a DHTML Binary Clock



Tame Ajax with JSON



Make a DHTML Slideshow



Add Vector Graphics with PHP



Build a Color Selector



Create Link Graphs



Create an Interactive Calendar



Create the Google Maps Scrolling Effect



Graphics



Create Thumbnail Images



Create Beautiful Graphics with SVG



Simplify Your Graphics with Objects



Split One Image into Multiple Images



Create Graphs with PHP



Create Image Overlays



Access Your iPhoto Pictures with PHP



Databases and XML



Design Better SQL Schemas



Create Bulletproof Database Access



Create Dynamic Database Access Objects



Generate CRUD Database Code



Read XML on the Cheap with Regular Expressions



Export Database Schema as XML



Create a Simple XML Query Handler for Database Access



Generate Database SQL



Generate Database Select Code



Convert CSV to PHP



Scrape Web Pages for Data



Suck Data from Excel Uploads



Load Your Database from Excel



Search Microsoft Word Documents



Create RTF Documents Dynamically



Create Excel Spreadsheets Dynamically



Create a Message Queue



Application Design



Create Modular Interfaces



Support Wiki Text



Turn Any Object into an Array



Create XML the Right Way



Fix the Double Submit Problem



Create User-Customizable Reports



Create a Login System



Apply Security by Role



Migrate to MD5 Passwords



Make Usable URLs with mod_rewrite



Build an Ad Redirector



Add a Buy Now Button



Find Out Where Your Guests Are Coming From



Import Information from vCards



Create vCard Files from Your Application's Data



Create a Shopping Cart



Patterns



Observe Your Objects



Create Objects with Abstract Factories



Flexible Object Creation with Factory Methods



Abstract Construction Code with a Builder



Separate What from How with Strategies



Link Up Two Modules with an Adapter



Write Portable Code with Bridges



Build Extensible Processing with Chains



Break Up Big Classes with Composites



Simplify APIs Using a Facade



Create Constant Objects with Singletons



Ease Data Manipulation with Visitors



Testing



Test Your Code with Unit Tests



Generate Your Unit Tests



Check for Broken Links



Test Your Application with Simulated Users



Test Your Application with Robots



Spider Your Site



Generate Documentation Automatically



Alternative UIs



Create Custom Maps with MapServer



Build GUI Interfaces with GTk



Send RSS Feeds to Your IM Application Using Jabber



IRC Your Web Application



Read RSS Feeds on Your PSP



Search Google by Link Graph



Create a New Interface for Amazon.com



Send SMS Messages from Your IM Client



Generate Flash Movies on the Fly



Fun Stuff



Create Custom Google Maps



Create Dynamic Playlists



Create a Media Upload/Download Center



Check Your Network Game with PHP



Put Wikipedia on Your PSP



Create a Weather Showdown


Index