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by David Sklar (Author), Adam Trachtenberg (Author)

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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (Nov 20 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565926811
ISBN-13: 978-1565926813
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 890 g

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"This book is absolutely packed with quick solutions to common obstacles or ideas in PHP. The chapters on security are worth their weight in gold, as you'll learn how to properly protect your site against unauthorised use." .NET, February 2004

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PHP is a simple yet powerful open source scripting language that has become a big player in web development. Over a million web sites, from large corporate sites to small personal sites, are using PHP to serve dynamic web content. PHP's broad feature set, approachable syntax, and support for different operating systems and web servers make it an ideal language for rapid web development.

The "PHP Cookbook" is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for PHP programmers. The book contains a unique and extensive collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or "recipe" -- short, focused pieces of code that you can insert directly into your applications. But this book offers more than cut-and-paste code. You also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations.

The recipes in the "PHP Cookbook" range from simple tasks, such as sending a database query and fetching URLs, to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks, such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts. This book contains over 250 recipes on the following topics:

Working with basic data types, including strings, numbers, dates and times, and arrays

PHP building blocks, such as variables, functions, classes, and objects

Web programming, including forms, database access, and XML

Useful features like regular expressions, encryption and security, graphics, internationalization and localization, and Internet services

Working with files and directories

Command-line PHP and PHP-GTK

PEAR, the PHP Extensionand Application Repository

This book contains an impressive collection of useful code for PHP programmers, from novices to advanced practitioners. Instead of poking around mailing lists, online documentation, and other sources, you can rely on the "PHP Cookbook" to provide quick solutions to common problems, so you can spend your time on those out-of-the-ordinary problems specific to your application.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book offers real solutions for real issues., Jun 19 2004

By	OKVideoGuy "Bill, the OKVideoGuy" (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

Most books cover commands and functions as though they were disembodied topics and don't relate them to the real world.

PHP Cookbook must be written by a "real developer" because he addresses actual everyday issues and illustrates practical solutions that you can use in your own applications.

I highly recommend this book.

- Hank Castello
compusolver.com

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4.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommened for web developers with basic/intermediate, Dec 2 2003

By	Juergen (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

If you are completely new to PHP, just forget about this book!
If you are looking for complete programming solutions, do so as well!
However, if you have some basic experience with PHP and MySQL this book is just great.
This book deserves the word "cookbook" as it contains over 600 pages of receipts (do not expect big explanations, but just snippets of code), which will help you to solve many problems. And the best of this book - in my personal opinion - is, that by reading it, you will find a lot of problems/solutions/ideas you have not thought about before.
Be warned: This book is not a real "help" for anybody who looks for the easy solution, but it will definitely help YOU to develop your site and develop yourself.
Just buy it - it's well worth the money and if this book won't pay out, none will!

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4.0 out of 5 stars A very good "cookbook" reference, Oct 14 2003

By	Todd E Smith (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

I have been programming PHP for a couple of years, and have lots of books on the subject. IMHO, I felt like this book serves the role of a "cookbook" very nicely. The contents are organized by language function via chapters (i.e. strings, numbers, arrays, regex, forms, classes, db, security, XML, etc...) which makes it convenient to find what you are looking for. Within each chapter, are very specific "Problem" and "Solutions" which contain simple code snippets (like 10 lines or less) and a description of what it does. Most problems are solved within one page. It is really concise and to the point. The index is comprehensive so it is straightforward to lookup the issue you are having, find the problem / solution and get on with your coding. You don't have to read thru lots of code or descriptions of why somebody setup a display template or complicated object. Look up your problem, read a quick solution, and BOOM, you're done and back to implementing it in your code.

I have read some other reviews for this book here that recommend the Wrox book, stating this one is too simple. I don't agree with this. The Wrox book appears to me to be another "... let's show you a bunch of full blown application examples ..." book to me, similar to the classic Welling and Thomson SAMS published text. The "cookbook" will not teach you the language, nor is that its intent; it assumes you know what you are doing.

This book is exactly what it says it is, a cookbook. If you need a quick solution to specific coding problems, at a fairly advanced level, it is a really good reference.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Filled with GREAT examples
This book has been a lifesaver for me. As is the case with all those in the Cookbook series, this book is filled with practical examples. Read more

Published on Jun 24 2003 by Rick Summers

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable asset for any developer
An excellent cookbook, following the old O'Reilly's tradition in the field. The recipes are clean, concise and elegant; the authors try to solve real world, common problems... Read more

Published on May 3 2003 by Foti Massimo

3.0 out of 5 stars WITH SOME DRAWBACKS, BUT STILL A GOOD BOOK
The main preoccupation of this book is finding solutions to common PHP programming problems. It contains a series of instructions on how best, programmers and/or web designers,... Read more

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This book is a collection of smallish code snippets that don't go into depth, but may be useful for your programming needs if you have very basic PHP knowledge. Read more

Published on Jan 15 2003 by Mike Schaum