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This is a free php book from Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series. In this book, PHP 5’s co-creator and two leading PHP developers show you how to make the most of PHP 5’s industrial-strength enhancements in any project – no matter how large or complex. …
Free online php book “PHP Functions Essential Reference”. The PHP Functions Essential Reference is a simple, clear and authoritative function reference that clarifies and expands upon PHP’s existing documentation. …
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). …
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. …