Download 27 Free PHP Books and eBooks - Part 3

Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5 (Professional Software Development with PHP 5) is in German. The book is available online free of charge. This book describes the way experienced PHP developers into the new, object-oriented PHP 5 world.

This online PHP developers guide introduces you to the world of PHP and how to become a PHP expert in no time. The remarkable volume of information which has moved to the Web over the last few years, and the complexity of delivering it dynamically to Web users, have resulted in the increased popularity of programming languages designed specifically for delivery of Web content.

This IBM Redbook provides lots of information for developers, including code samples for creating PHP applications with DB2, Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), and Cloudscape. We use the latest PHP data access extensions including: PHP Data Objects (PDO) and the native ibm_db2 extension for PHP.

Following the Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, published by O’Reilly) spirit, the PLEAC Project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages. In this free online book, you’ll find an implementation of the Solutions of the Perl Cookbook in the PHP language.

This guide describes the installation and structure of PHP-Nuke and the details of customizing the front end to suit the users’ needs. The architecture of PHP-Nuke, with its modules, blocks, topics and themes is presented in detail, as well as the interplay of PHP and MySQL for the creation of a mighty content management system (CMS).It also delves into more advanced issues, like the programming of PHP-Nuke blocks and modules, security, acceleration, and optimization. Day-to-day operations and miscellaneous topics are also covered.

Whether you are a Web developer or enterprise developer looking to combine the robustness of the Oracle engine with the simplicity, performance, and ease-of-use of PHP, you are bound to find several interesting “recipes” here, each contributed by PHP coders, that will help you take full advantage of both technologies.

The book is intended to cover all aspects of PHP. It begins by covering the history of PHP before providing a high level overview of how PHP works and why it is so useful to web developers. It then moves on to cover each area of PHP in detail, from the basics of the scripting language through to object oriented programming, file and filesystem handling and MySQL and SQLite database access.