Professional PHP4 Web Development Solutions

by Luis Argerich, Alison Gianotto, Raj Dash

This title shows web developers the versatility of PHP for large-scale web applications. It features case studies showing PHP use with output in HTML, XML, and WML. The PHP programming techniques are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861007434
• ISBN13: 9781861007438
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Real Solutions for Web Deveopment

Seems Wrox is going great with PHP titles with pretty good collection coming one after another! Being into web development myself, this book has come as a great relief. It has given functions and methods with ready to use solutions. Could actually put them to use modifying them, plugging them in various applications.A must have for the Web Developers / Designers!

WROX Solutions Vs. ORA Cookbook

I ordered a copy of the "Professional PHP 4 web Development Solutions WROX", along with a copy of the "PHP Cookbook ORA" . Upon reading both these books, i thought i should offer a honest review comparing the two:Both the books were informative in their own right o The WROX book offered complete solutions to real world problems - a Simple/advanced CMS (the core of which you can plug into your site), a simple search engine, a classified ads board, and lots of cool creative case study solutions that i could extend to use in my hobby sites. The content was very enterprising and all of the solutions presented are the most popular one's amongst web developers these days. More interesting is that these solutions can be completely re-used and extended into your projects. However, the downside of this book is that you would need to have prior PHP knowledge either picked up from WROX' Professional PHP 4 (as is mentioned as a pre-requisite in the book) or from the Programming PHP ORA, or any another competent professional PHP programming books in the market.o The ORA book had small snippets of code based solutions (very similar to the PHP Developers cookbook from Sterling and Andrei) that are very useful for programmers who are confounded with small to medium coding problems. However, there was nothing enterprising about the coverage, that one could not achieve from using a combination of the online docs + mailing lists. Another downside was that i could not find full solutions that i could re-use in my projects.On the Other hand, i found So the bottomline is:oCare for a full meal - Pick up the Wrox book.oCare for an appetiser - Pick up the ORA book.I am posting this same review for both the books (so customers can benefit from it). However, i have ranked the Wrox book, a notch above this one, simply because i wanted a burp:-)

A book complete with re-usable solutions

This is just the kind of book, that i have alwayswanted. It's packed with solutions for the working professional/hobbyist, from cover to cover - Zeropages wasted on frivolties.I was able to completely re-use the core of thesimple content management system into my personal website, and it worked just perfectly fine. I also didn't have to type the code in by hand, as all the code was available from the publishers website - Sweeeet!!!More books like this, and my wife and kids willbe a lot happier:-)